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How to ask people to remember your deceased child

I lost my only child five years ago and my friends have stopped mentioning her name, like she never existed, and I do not know how to tell them that silence hurts more than tears.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The community's discomfort with death creates a conspiracy of silence that erases the child's ongoing significance.

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