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A Buddhist legend records the story of a mother who, in deep despair over her son’s death, approaches Buddha for a ‘cure’ for her child.
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Beckmann, J., Olesen, H. (1988). The Anxiety of the Unknown — Dying in a Psycho-Existential Perspective. In: Gilmore, A., Gilmore, S. (eds) A Safer Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8359-2_5
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