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When family members have different comfort levels with assisted dying

Our mother chose physician-assisted death and while my brother and I both support her decision, we're dealing with very different feelings about being present for it, and I think we're both afraid to tell each other what we really need.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Siblings are navigating the complexity of supporting someone's autonomous choice to die while honoring their own vastly different emotional needs around witnessing that choice.

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