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When grief makes you negotiate with impossibility

I keep trying to bargain with God or the universe to bring my child back even though I know it is impossible and I am not even religious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Desperate attachment can override rational understanding of death's finality.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief as psychological process?”

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