“…But it seems that this particular 'family event' (Morgan, 1985) has not (yet) been theorised through family sociology (Almack and Woodthorpe, 2021). Some exceptions here include a focus on (children's) accounts of biographical disruption through family death (Jamieson and Highet, 2013), children's perspectives and biographies interwoven with family deaths (Davies, 2019), and the implications for family and family relationships after a death (Finch and Mason, 2000;Almack, 2022;Walter, 2020;Ribbens McCarthy et al, under review). Family sociology has so much to offer here through the lens of family practices, with many of David's theoretical concerns central to such a project: 'families and troubles are mutually implicated […] families are constituted through the ways in which they respond to and create problems […] family boundaries are created and recreated through the engagement of family members with troubles' (Morgan, 2019(Morgan, : 2227(Morgan, , 2229.…”