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When others minimize your grief

Everyone says my mother lived a full life but she died at sixty-eight and I am angry that people expect me to be grateful instead of devastated.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Society's discomfort with death creates pressure to perform acceptance before it is genuine.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with How grief changes over years and decades?”

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