They were in that wretched time trying to be the parents they knew they should be, no doubt. No doubt too their beliefs about what happens to you when you die, and after, and what dying is like, and what it does to you now and later, and what you should believe when you are dying, none of them came from anything they knew or learned about dying and death during the course of his long illness. During the time when they could have and should have been learning about dying and death, he was not dying. He was in treatment. None of what they knew or believed came from any hard and fast experience
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