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When families disagree about end-of-life values

My sibling and I are dealing with our aging parent's declining health and we have completely different philosophies about autonomy, dignity, and what constitutes a good death, but we keep pretending we're just disagreeing about logistics.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Practical decisions become impossible when the underlying philosophical differences about death and dignity remain unexamined.

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