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When your child died before you could reconcile

I was estranged from my adult son when he died in an accident and we never got to reconcile, and now I have to live with both grief and regret forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Death forecloses the possibility of repair, leaving the parent with permanent unfinished business that compounds their mourning.

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