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When families avoid spiritual conversations during end-of-life transitions

My elderly father is dying and my siblings and I are struggling with different ideas about what kind of spiritual support he wants and needs, and none of us wants to be the one to bring it up directly with him. We're all tiptoeing around these huge questions about meaning and death and what comes after while time runs out.

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A family faces the intersection of mortality and meaning but cannot find the courage to speak directly about what matters most.

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