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When others sanitize your loved one's complicated death

My sister died of an overdose and at the funeral everyone talked about her addiction like it was separate from who she was but that disease was part of her and I loved all of her including the broken parts.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The griever resists society's need to simplify complex people into palatable memorial narratives.

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“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”

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