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When grief reveals conflicts between spiritual worldviews

My son died three months ago and the priest says he's in heaven, but in our traditional way I know he's still here in the wind and trees, and I don't understand why I have to choose between these truths.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Loss strips away the comfortable compartmentalization of beliefs, demanding integration of contradictory understandings of death and afterlife.

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