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When caregiving love includes thoughts of death

I have been caring for my mother with dementia for three years and sometimes I wish she would just die so this suffering could end.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love sometimes manifests as the terrible wish for an end to suffering, even when that end means loss.

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