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How to cope with complicated feelings about organ donation

I donated my son's organs after he died and I am glad other families were helped but sometimes I have nightmares about pieces of him living in strangers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The generous impulse to create meaning from loss conflicts with the primitive need to keep the child's body whole and close.

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