Little Wished-for Deaths
4m readMary PembletonOct 11When faced with a death that had felt as if it never would come, I was surprised at the depth…
How a Show About Grief Created a Community
11m readShirley LiOct 01When Kit Steinkellner created "Sorry for Your Loss," she was just trying to make a candid drama about losing a…
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'I felt changed': Max Porter on the book everyone should read about…
5m read10 savesMax PorterSep 27Written after the death of her son, Denise Riley’s Time Lived, Without Its Flow finds radical and consoling ways to…
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I Will Outlive My Cat: A Reading List on Pet Death
7m read8 savesAlison FishburnSep 24Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.
Lisa Appignanesi: ‘Rage and anger are part of mourning’
3m readSep 14The writer on the fury she felt at the death of her partner of 32 years
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as…
6m read16 savesMaria Popova10/17/18“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule.…
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Dear Therapist: I’m Ashamed of How I Treated My Dying Husband
1m read6 savesJul 29In his final days, I didn’t show him the love and care he deserved.
The Life-Changing Magic of Mushroom Hunting in Central Park
8m readJul 02All beginners know that same frustration: in order to find mushrooms, first you have to know where to look. But,…
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The Lingering of Loss
15m read31 savesMar 11My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began…
On Life and Death and the Oldest Living Thing in Pennsylvania
11m readJun 10It goes without saying that the California redwoods are immense. They are, in fact, the tallest living things in the…
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The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning
15m read9 savesMay 21Nowadays, we live online, and so we grieve here too. But there are limits to the comfort digital mourning can…
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Elaine Kasket: ‘There is no digital rule book for grief’
4m read8 savesApr 27The clinical psychologist and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine talks privacy, angels and Facebook cemeteries