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Claire Bidwell Smith

Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of “The Rules of Inheritance” and “After This: When Life is Over Where Do We Go?”

End of life care at home is a better, more cost-effective option (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-206023p1.html “>CandyBox Images</a> via <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/">Shutterstock</a>)

Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death”

Claire Bidwell Smith
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Finding my mother again

Claire Bidwell Smith
A detail from the cover of "The Rules of Inheritance"

The abortion I wish she’d been there for

Claire Bidwell Smith