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When platitudes about divine purpose make grief worse

My daughter died in an accident and people keep telling me everything happens for a reason and I want to scream at them that there is no reason good enough for a child to die.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The human need to find meaning in tragedy can impose explanations that feel like insults to those actually bearing the loss.

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