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When someone dies despite your efforts to save them

I donated my kidney to my sister five years ago and now she's dying anyway from a different disease, and I feel angry that my sacrifice didn't matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The failure of love's most generous gestures to prevent death can feel like cosmic betrayal.

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“Where Are You with Death and dying — the physical process?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.