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How to handle deathbed promises about faith you no longer share

My Zoroastrian grandmother is dying and keeps asking me to promise I will continue the prayers after she is gone but I have not believed in Ahura Mazda for years and I do not want to lie to her.

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Love and honesty stand in apparent opposition when facing the sacred trust of a dying elder.

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