Candy Uncle Death

A distant candy uncle, the kid gets to know them, establish the connection and then dies over the phone. You can have a violent, dramatic death as the kid swallows a piece of candy - that's harder to organize. A colly defective kid who burns some biscuits is actually the charitable arm of candy uncle. If they go wrong, you just have candy uncle show back up again,. And then his whole world gets turned upside down, and they don't know how to deal.