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When someone dies while still living

I visit my grandmother with dementia every week and each time she remembers less of me, and I don't know how to love someone who is disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The self we love in another is already gone, revealing the illusion of permanent identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist grief — impermanence as practice?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.