Of all the teaching requests I have received from palliative care organizations over the years, one concern dominates. I have been asked over and over again to teach how to help dying people “find meaning at the end of life.” I am sure this is because people in those organizations are routinely sitting beside dying people and staring with them into the void of what is to be, and they sense the shudder running through all those for whom dying is the end of meaning, the annihilation of meaning, the anti-story. Many of these professionals are working without such a narrative, without the
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