Death is a sheltered experience in our dominant culture, and many shy away from doing anything so as to avoid doing the ...

Like so many people, I’m fascinated, consumed, and appalled by death. I read books about it, I occasionally write hypothetical eulogies for loved ones in my head, and I even have a tattoo that says ...

It was early springtime here in Australia when my son died. I took jasmine and dark-red sweet peas from my garden to his funeral and laid them carefully beside him, wondering how I could even keep ...

Joan Didion, author of "The Year of Magical Thinking," speaks at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California in February, 1977. Grief is a profound and complicated experience. The process of grief ...

He described it as a period of time following a loss when a person must process or work through their thoughts, memories, and emotions in order to move on with life. Grief, in a nutshell, is an ...

In a Reddit post, a mother explained a conflict that stemmed from an unthinkable loss she had experienced only weeks earlier. “This situation deals with infant loss,” she wrote, adding that while ...