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When a loved one's faith conflicts with your own beliefs during their final days

My grandmother is dying and keeps asking me to pray with her but I stopped believing in God years ago and I don't know how to tell her without breaking her heart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The sacred act of accompanying someone in death reveals the gap between love and belief.

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