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How preserving spaces of the dead becomes psychological torture

I cannot clean out my teenage son's room because touching his things feels like erasing him but leaving everything exactly the same is making me crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The impulse to maintain sacred space conflicts with the need to continue living.

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