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When death interrupts collaborative musical projects

My brother died suddenly and we were supposed to finish recording our album together and now I don't know if I should complete it without him or if that would be wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Grief complicates the completion of shared creative work, raising questions about authorship, memory, and the ethics of posthumous collaboration.

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