"You just have to love yourself enough to know that your loved one would not want you to take that on," Etheridge tells PEOPLE in this week's issue Melissa ... the death of her son Beckett.

Melissa Etheridge's docuseries I'm Not Broken ... the artist explains how their stories connected to her own after the 2020 death of her son Beckett Cypher at the age of 21.

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The 59-year-old singer's son, Beckett, died of an opioid overdose last month. Beckett died Wednesday after struggling with opioid addiction. Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher's son Beckett has ...