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Why religious comfort after child loss can feel like cruelty

Everyone keeps saying my teenage daughter is 'in a better place' and I want to scream that the better place was here with me.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Well-meaning spiritual platitudes can invalidate the primal truth that no cosmic purpose justifies a parent's devastation.

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“Where Are You with The death of a child — the unnatural loss?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.