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Life Review: Telling the Story of a Life Lived

Telling your story means deciding which moments defined you, how you survived what broke you, and what you learned from the full span of living. The narrative you create is not fixed—it can evolve as you understand your life differently.

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Life review is a structured reflective process, originally developed in gerontology by Robert Butler, in which a person systematically revisits and narrates the significant events, relationships, and turning points of a life, either their own or a loved one who has died. It serves both as a preservation practice and a meaning-making exercise that transforms scattered memories into a coherent legacy.

AI tools are particularly well suited to facilitating life review because they can guide structured interviews, help organize decades of memories into meaningful themes, and assist in producing written or recorded tributes that honor the full arc of a life and provide lasting comfort to the bereaved.

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