Ghost Parents
After death comes life
We keep the dead with us in all kinds of ways - a wedding ring worn on a chain, a name inked on our skin, a bedroom left exactly as it was. But what if you could carry more than just memory? What if you could take part of the dead with you into the future?
In The Weekend Intelligence, reporter Nicki Chandris meets three people whose lives, upended by loss, face the same wrenching decision. Whether to create a new life with someone who no longer has one. Their stories test the boundaries of what grief can justify.
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