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How to handle buying gifts for your dead child

My teenage daughter died two years ago and I still buy her Christmas presents and wrap them but I don't know what to do with them afterward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental love persists beyond death but lacks appropriate expression within social norms.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Continuing bonds — ongoing relationship with the deceased?”

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