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Do We Still Need This Memorial?

Most mornings, Daniel scrolls past the Times of Israel's "Those We Have Lost" section and thinks: do we still really need this? Then he feels ashamed for thinking it. This episode takes that private, involuntary question seriously — what clinical psychology actually says about grief that lasts, why prolonged grief disorder is a minority outcome rather than everyone's destination, and how stigma silences people who ask whether a memorial has run its course. Along the way: what 1,231 Israeli adults told researchers about PTSD trajectories, why the "five stages" model keeps generating guilt, and…

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