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When families disagree about honoring spiritual wishes in death

My mom is dying and my brother wants to respect her wishes for no religious ceremony while my sister wants to honor the faith that shaped our childhood even though none of us practice it anymore. Every conversation about her final weeks becomes an argument about who she really was.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

In the face of loss, those who love the same person discover they carry different pieces of who that person was.

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