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When grief makes you want to believe again

I'm at my grandmother's funeral and everyone is talking about her being in heaven and I want to believe it so badly but I can't make myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pain of loss can create a desperate longing for religious consolation even when intellectual conviction has been abandoned.

Ideas that help explain it
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