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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By accepting the natural order of things and not thinking of death of elders as tragedy.

Children with cancer are a tragedy; people in midlife and beyond with cancer are the natural order of things. [/quote]

Either you are cold as ice or just have not lived through this yet.

Often these are vital people, hit out of the blue with terror and pain that you have to watch as they decline.

We are not talking about some folk song lyrics. [/quote]

I guess you can't read, as I have just posted about the many early deaths I have suffered among family and friends. And I have spent a decade of my life as a hospice caregiver so there isn't anything YOU can tell me about helping people cope with impending death at any age.[/quote]

Here’s the problem with your pov: 
- you’re asking people to be ‘ok’ with death and dying which is not natural or normal to be ok with regardless of age. 
- you have dedicated your life to the dying so you can be expected to have a preternatural understanding of it which the read of us don’t have. You could use that power to give a more enlightened answer but your defense is just a repetition of how much dying you’ve experienced. I’m sorry for your loss but doing something over and over doesn’t actually make you good at helping others do it, although it ought to make you better at it than you are [/quote]

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