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When loved ones need reassurance about beliefs you have abandoned

My grandmother is dying and she wants me to promise I will meet her in heaven but I stopped believing in afterlife years ago and cannot lie to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The deathbed becomes a place where private spiritual evolution collides with the need to comfort those we love.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religious community and its discontents?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.