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When your end-of-life wishes conflict with your family's grieving needs

I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered in the ocean but my children are upset because they want somewhere to visit me and I do not know if I should care more about their grief or my own wishes for my body.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Death forces us to choose between honoring our own vision of how we want to be remembered and providing our loved ones with the rituals and places they need to process loss.

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