yalereview.org
Lili Hamlyn: "Camera Mortis"
~14 min read · Jun 9th · An essay about collecting post-mortem photographs––and grieving––in the Thanatos Archive.
Reader View · Shared by 9, including Jane
The Atlantic
Learning How to Grieve in Public
4 min read · Jun 3rd · What happens when private loss is widely shared instead of borne alone? Your weekly guide to the best in books
Reader View · Shared by 42, including Jane
The New York Times
The Lost Americans
~15 min read · May 14th · Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on.
Reader View · Shared by 52, including Bernardo van Olst, Jane, luis antónio santos
TIME
Don't Say You 'Can't Imagine' Someone's Grief
5 min read · Apr 14th · Roughly 1 million people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S., and their family and friends have stories to share
Reader View · Shared by 23, including Jane
The Atlantic
The Pandemic Has Trapped Millions in Unending Grief
~19 min read · Apr 13th · COVID is now the third leading cause of death—and therefore the third leading cause of grief—in the United States.
Reader View · Shared by 105, including Jane, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Deborah Blum, Steve Silberman, Gregg Gonsalves, Taylor Lorenz @ VidCon, Dr Ellie Murray, ScD, Mar Hicks, Timothy Caulfield, Ed Yong, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD
Tricycle Magazine
How to Handle Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough
4 min read · Mar 22nd · Our path isn’t about escaping this world, it’s about becoming more intimate with it.
Reader View · Shared by 129, including Jane
The New York Times
How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer.
8 min read · Mar 18th · The latest edition of the DSM-5, sometimes known as “psychiatry’s bible,” includes a controversial new diagnosis: prolonged grief disorder.
Reader View · Shared by 142, including Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Jane, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Todd Kashdan, Jake Jackson, 🆃🆁🆄🅳🆈, Eghosa Omoigui
Guardian Books
My partner died. Then my brother. Here’s what not to say to someone who is grieving
3 min read · Jan 28th · In an effort to help – and to protect themselves – people try to shrink the loss with empty platitudes. But that can make grief even more painful
Reader View · Shared by 106, including Jane, Marcos, Sonja Peteranderl
The New York Times
How to Help a Loved One Through Sudden Loss
6 min read · Jan 7th · Here’s how to offer support to someone grieving after an unexpected death.
Reader View · Shared by 36, including Jane
NPR
When facing loss, embrace change and don't force closure, a therapist urges
6 min read · Jan 5th · Over the last two years, many have experienced a kind of ambiguous loss as we have lived with isolation and uncertainty in the pandemic. Author and therapist Pauline Boss explains how to move forward.
Reader View · Shared by 25, including Jane
NPR
How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal
7 min read · 2021-12-20 · Grieving is a form of learning, says a scientist who studies the brain's response to loss. When someone you love dies, you have to learn new rules for navigating the world and your brain has to adapt.
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Jane
The Atlantic
Grief Is Evidence of Love
3 min read · 2021-12-20 · Yes, mourning is an acknowledgment of loss. But the late scholar bell hooks argued that it is also a way of honoring our commitment to those who have died.
Reader View · Shared by 29, including Jane
Brain Pickings
The Geometry of Grief: Mathematician Michael Frame on How Fractals Help Fathom and Move Through Loss
7 min read · 2021-11-11 · “The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.”
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Jennifer Ouellette, Jane
Aeon+Psyche
How the brain responds to grief can change who we are
9 min read · 2021-08-10 · The five stages of grief can’t begin to explain it: grief affects the body, brain and sense of self, and patience is the key
Reader View · Shared by 303, including Anita Leirfall, Timothy Lomauro, Jane, Esther Schindler, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
The Year of Postponed Grief
3 min read · 2021-08-18 · 16 months after my grandmother died, my family finally gathered to bury her.
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Jane
The Atlantic
What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
2021-08-09 · Grief, conspiracy, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
Reader View · Shared by 581, including Jeff Atwood, zeynep tufekci, Ida Bae Wells, David Leonhardt, Scott Gottlieb, MD, Anne Helen Petersen, Steve Silberman, Ed Yong, Anne Applebaum, Kevin M. Kruse, Matthew Herper, Brian Stelter, Paul Bloom, Anne Thompson, James Fallows, Larry Ferlazzo, Neuropsychology, Mathew Ingram, David Frum, Andrew Ross Sorkin
