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Why public narratives about death can feel wrong to those who actually knew the person

My son died in the military and people keep calling him a hero but he was just scared and twenty and I want to scream when they use those words.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective meanings imposed on individual deaths can alienate grievers from their private knowledge of who the person really was.

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