It desperately needs to be healed. We need to be healed. They—our Dead—need to be healed. The Living and The Dying are the ones who can and must start that healing. I have taken most of this book to try and give us the beginnings of a shared language and a shared understanding of what we all face in our time when dying makes its guaranteed appearance among us. To do so I have had to spend an awfully long time talking about what is wrong and how it has come to be that way. Now I think I can begin to talk about what we can do about it, and what we must do about it. How we are with our dying is
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