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When the place someone died becomes impossible to inhabit

My wife died in our bed and now I sleep on the couch every night because I can't bear to lie where she took her last breath.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Death can consecrate or contaminate spaces, making the familiar geography of home suddenly foreign and charged.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief and legacy — how the dead continue to live in us?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.