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When love includes wishing for death

I am watching my father die slowly from cancer and sometimes I wish he would just go quickly but then I hate myself for thinking that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Witnessing prolonged suffering creates impossible emotions where compassion and selfishness become indistinguishable.

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