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When others claim to know what your deceased loved one would want

My wife died and her friends keep telling me what she would have wanted me to do and I want to tell them to stop speaking for her because she's not here to speak for herself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The dead become ventriloquist dummies for the living's projections and agendas.

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