A man's sister, a funeral director, normalized family conversations about death. After she died from alcoholism following 25 years of his attempts to save her, he felt relief alongside grief, recognizing she had finally reached the peace she wanted.
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And ironically enough, my younger sister is a former funeral director. So I'd have to say she's the one that really started the conversation in our family, one side of the family, and talking about death and kind of normalizing it within our family, and then just having so many experiences of it, you know, it does become a part of the conversation. And sadly, my sister, she didn't pass away unexpectedly, but she passed away suddenly. And so that is the thing that really shifted my thinking, because I tried, you know, for 25 years to save her. And she was an alcoholic. So after she passed away, it was just a complete shift in in me. And I hate to say it was almost like having a burden lifted off my shoulders. I mean, it sounds kind of callous, but I knew she was where she wanted to be.