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How to handle deathbed requests you can't fulfill

My mother is dying and keeps asking me to promise I'll raise my children in her faith but I can't honestly make that commitment.

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A dying person's final wishes conflict with the survivor's authentic convictions about how to live.

Concept: conflicted inheritance

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