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Why aging parents avoid end-of-life planning conversations

My parents refuse to discuss their end-of-life wishes and get angry every time I bring it up but I need to know what they want

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The refusal to plan for death becomes its own form of magical thinking, as if silence could grant immortality.

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