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Why sites of death become pilgrimage destinations for the grieving

I have been going to the hospital where my father died just to sit in the parking lot because it was the last place we were together and I do not want to lose that connection.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical locations hold the last traces of shared presence and leaving them feels like final abandonment.

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