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'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

2:17pm February 03, 2025

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

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Stephanie Rimel looks at a photo of her brother Kyle Dixon, 27, who died of COVID-19 on Jan. 20. She says that during his illness and after his death, some people made insensitive comments or denied the pandemic's reality.

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When COVID Deaths Are Dismissed Or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame And Anger

4:37pm August 30, 2021

by Brett Sholtis

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes COVID-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."