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Thoughts On Dying Well In A Death-Phobic Culture - Stephen Jenkinson - ND3582

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Is That Helpful to You?

"I said it to him because I was helping that whatever he needed to do, in whatever time he had left," she says of her husband. "Within three days, he died." She asks: Was that helpful? And what seems to have been the consequence of you willing to be candid with someone who's dying? The idea that you're going to give someone who's Dying anyway permission to die is a mother-child arrangement,. It's a parental function to grant permission. But as an act of love, we are willing to know the ending of that love as it looms.

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