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When siblings disagree about end-of-life care decisions

My brother and I have been co-caring for our aging father and we've never talked about what a good death looks like or what we'd want for him, and now decisions are coming up fast and we're realizing we might have completely different values about dignity and suffering.

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Two people who share deep responsibility are discovering their fundamental values may be incompatible at the moment those values matter most.

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