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How to respond when condolences don't match your beliefs

People keep telling me my mother is 'in a better place' but she was an atheist and I'm an atheist and these platitudes make me want to scream.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Comfort offered from foreign frameworks can deepen the isolation of loss.

Ideas that help explain it
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