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How families navigate conflicting beliefs during loss

My sister and I are planning our father's funeral and she wants a full Catholic mass because that's how we were raised, but he stopped believing decades ago and told me privately he didn't want that. We're both grieving and both right and I don't know how to honor everyone.

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