I said something cruel to my mother during her cancer treatment that I immediately regretted and she died before I could properly apologize and now I don't know how to live with that.
More people experience this than they realize.
The impossibility of direct amends forces a confrontation with how accountability must sometimes transform into a different kind of moral work when restoration is no longer possible.
“Where Are You with Punitive vs. restorative approaches to harm?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.