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Why death work can lose its purpose

I work in hospice care and watch people die every day and I used to find it meaningful but now it just feels like endless sadness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Repeated exposure to mortality can overwhelm the meaning-making capacity and transform sacred work into mere repetition of loss.

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