We want to think that our parents will be healthy, fine, live happily until a ripe old age and die peacefully in their sleep.

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The actor, who was known to millions as Coronation Street binman Eddie Yeats in the 1970s and 1980s, died "peacefully in his sleep" on Friday night.

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And she died peacefully in her sleep.

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