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Lots of good advice and positive vibes, to which I add my sympathies. (Bought a bike from 007 and had a great interaction.)
Having a chat with a person specializing in matters of religion / psychology / social work is probably the way to go here, because pure reason is clearly out of consideration for the BIL.
Also, for what is worth, I read this quote recently and found it somewhat uplifting actually:
RIP utilitarian philosopher Derek Parfit: “When I believed the non-reductionist view [of personal identity], I also cared more about my inevitable death. After my death, there will [be] no one living who will be me. I can now redescribe this fact. Though there will later be many experiences, none of these experiences will be connected to my present experiences by chains of such direct connections as those involved in experience-memory, or in the carrying out of an earlier intention. Some of these future experiences may be related to my present experiences in less direct ways. There will later be some memories about my life. And there may later be thoughts that are influenced by mine, or things done as the result of my advice. My death will break the more direct relations between my present experiences and future experiences, but it will not break various other relations. This is all there is to the fact that there will be no one living who will be me. Now that I have seen this, my death seems to me less bad.”
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