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How families navigate grief within scientific naturalism

My family has always been proudly atheist and science-minded, but after my dad's cancer diagnosis, my mom started talking about 'energy' and 'the universe having a plan' and now family dinners are tense because we don't know how to honor both grief and our shared commitment to naturalism.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Crisis has revealed that your shared worldview doesn't actually provide shared language for processing profound loss.

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