‘I am at a loss’: My brother is dying. We are not close. What responsibility do I have to help him?
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End-of-life decisions expose how thin most families’ planning and documentation really are — when someone can’t communicate, the burden shifts abruptly to whoever is nearby. Organizations building health, legal, or fintech products around families should assume messy, incomplete relationships as the default case, not the exception.
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