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How to comfort dying loved ones when you don't share their afterlife beliefs

My grandmother is dying and keeps talking about seeing each other in heaven and I just nod along but inside I'm falling apart because I don't think that's real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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End-of-life conversations become agonizing when comfort requires pretending to believe what you cannot.

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