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How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death

By Emily Esfahani Smith — 2017

The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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The death of a beloved is an amputation.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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Facing Own Death