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When love and anger toward the dead coexist

My brother overdosed two months ago and I keep oscillating between rage at him for choosing drugs over us and devastating sadness that his pain was so unbearable he saw no other way out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief for those who died by their own hand requires holding both compassion and fury without resolution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief as spiritual practice?”

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