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When grief makes charitable giving feel impossible

My wife died six months ago and people keep suggesting I make memorial donations but I am too angry and sad to think about being generous to anyone right now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The bereaved person confronts social expectations of memorializing through generosity while lacking emotional capacity for anything beyond survival.

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