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When deathbed promises become life sentences

I promised my dying father I would take care of my mentally ill brother and it's been three years and I don't think I can do this anymore but I can't break a deathbed promise.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sacred commitments made in grief can become prisons that honor the dead while destroying the living.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What you take with you — the inner legacy that death carries away?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.