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When aging parents express wishes to die

Dad keeps talking about wanting to die and I do not know if he means it or if he is just depressed about losing Mom

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of another's despair tests whether we can hold space for pain without rushing to fix or dismiss it.

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