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When families disagree about honoring deceased relatives' charitable values

Our extended family wants to create a memorial fund for my grandmother, but half of us want to support the conservative Christian organizations she loved and half want to give to progressive causes we think better reflect her underlying compassion, and the conversation keeps turning into arguments about what she 'really' believed.

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A family is discovering that grief and legacy can become battlegrounds for unresolved differences about faith and politics.

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