“We want to give loved ones who are sick or dying everything we think they want — but we can’t,” said Barbara Karnes, an end-of-life educator and hospice nurse based in Vancouver, Wash. Events can render these promises impossible. “We have to figure out a way to forgive ourselves.”
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