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When survival feels like betrayal

I feel guilty for having a good life when I know what my great-grandparents went through during the potato famine just to keep the family line going.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Prosperity in the present can trigger complex guilt about ancestral suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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