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When a Dying Parent Asks You to Forgive Someone You're Not Ready to Forgive

My mother is dying and keeps asking me to forgive my father who left when I was twelve and I do not know if forgiveness is something I owe her or something I choose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Deathbed requests can feel like moral coercion disguised as final wishes.

Ideas that help explain it
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