Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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benefits to a claimant's surviving spouse for the duration of the spouse’s life where the claimant died of a non-work related cause while his claim was still pending. 217 S.W.3d 900, 901-03 (Mo. banc 2007). The General Assembly amended sections 287.020.1, 287.200, and 287.230 the next year (in 2008) to abrogate Schoemehl, and to make it clear that “compensation for a permanent total disability is payable only during the lifetime of the injured employee and is not payable to dependents after the employee’s death when the employee dies from causes unrelated to the work injury." Gervich v. Condaire, Inc., 370 S.W.3d 617, 620-21 (Mo. banc 2012). Missouri courts thereafter concluded that the 2008 amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act could not be retroacti -02 (Mo. banc 2008) . Strait held that if a worker’s compensation
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding new time period of 28 usc  2244d inapplicable to pending habeas petition where period ended before amendments effective date
B. holding retroactive application of the act to prosecution that was pending before the effective date of the act was precluded because the act is prospective
C. holding that statute which became effective after claimants death but prior to the trial of wrongful death case was remedial constitutional and governed pending litigation proceedings that were pending when statute was enacted
D. holding that children could receive permanent total disability payments after the death of their mother where the mothers claim was pending before the effective date of the 2008 statutory amendments and was still pending at the time of her death
E. holding that wife could receive permanent total disability payments after the death of her husband where the husbands claim was pending before the effective date of the 2008 statutory amendments and was still pending at the time of his death even though husbands death occurred after the effective date of the 2008 statutory amendments as wifes status as a dependent was subject to determination as of the time of husbands injury
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.