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When family members cope with terminal illness differently

My dad is dying and my mom keeps insisting everything is fine and planning for the future like nothing is happening. My siblings and I don't know how to honor her way of coping while also preparing for what's coming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Denial and acceptance can coexist in the same family, creating isolated islands of grief within shared love.

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