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Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Search for Meaning

The search for meaning is critical in situations of loss, clear or ambiguous. For example, if a child dies, or if a child commits suicide, it's nonsensical. But my point is that too is a meaning. The fact that it's meaningless is a meaning, and it always will be meaning. i can live with something meaningless, some one might say, but what i've found is as long as i have something else in my life that is meaning full....

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