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When couples must reconcile different philosophies about aging and death

My spouse and I are both watching our elderly parents decline and we're realizing we have fundamentally different beliefs about suffering, medical intervention, and what it means to die well, but we need to make decisions together about our own future that depend on resolving these differences.

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Two people planning a shared future are discovering their deepest assumptions about mortality, suffering, and the good death are incompatible.

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