The Atlantic
Never Say ‘There Are No Words’ to the Grieving
8 min · · How do you talk to parents whose two teenage children have just been killed? · Shared by 160, including Jane, Daron Larson
The Guardian
‘You will get it wrong … but you can’t make it worse’: 16 ways to talk to people who are…
12+ min · · Comedian Cariad Lloyd has spoken to hundreds of bereaved people for her award-winning series Griefcast and a new book on dealing with loss. She shares the lessons she has learned · Shared by 166, including Jane, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦
Nautilus Magazine
Life Is Hard. And That’s Good
19+ min · · When the going gets tough, the tough get philosophical. · Shared by 1907, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jane, Touche Theories, Anita Leirfall
The New York Times
Opinion | How to Talk to a Widow
6 min · · Please, don’t email a widow with sympathy and then just disappear. There is no timetable for us moving on. · Shared by 66, including Jane
Vox
How to handle an overload of grief
8 min · · When losses stack up, how are you supposed to manage? · Shared by 382, including Jane, Stephanie A Kowalski
The New Yorker
Talking About Grief with Anderson Cooper
5 min · · After my husband died unexpectedly this summer, I found comfort in Cooper’s podcast about death and loss, “All There Is.” · Shared by 124, including Jane
The New York Times
Missing the Home You Needed to Leave
9 min · · There is a name for the specific type of grief that both refugees and migrants experience. It’s called “cultural bereavement.” · Shared by 8, including Jane
The Atlantic
There Are No 'Five Stages' of Grief
10 min · · An expert in medical evidence looks at the science of loss. · Shared by 87, including Hilda Bastian, PhD @hildabast@mastodon.online, Julia Belluz, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Jane, Vaughan Bell
The Atlantic
The Elitist History of Grieving
6 min · · Today, mourning attire is subdued and dutiful. It wasn’t always that way. · Shared by 9, including Jane
commentary.org
Good Grief
12+ min · · Fortunate is the person who has reached the age of 50 without having had to grieve. To be among the grieving, the bereaved, is an experience most of us go through, excepting only those who die… · Shared by 1987, including Neil Hart 💙, Jane
yalereview.org
Lili Hamlyn: "Camera Mortis"
14+ min · · An essay about collecting post-mortem photographs––and grieving––in the Thanatos Archive. · Shared by 180, including Jane
The Atlantic
Learning How to Grieve in Public
4 min · · What happens when private loss is widely shared instead of borne alone? Your weekly guide to the best in books · Shared by 42, including Jane
The New York Times
The Lost Americans
15+ min · · 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. · Shared by 52, including Bernardo van Olst, Jane, luis antónio santos
TIME
Don't Say You 'Can't Imagine' Someone's Grief
5 min · · Roughly 1 million people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S., and their family and friends have stories to share · Shared by 10, including Jane
The Atlantic
The Pandemic Has Trapped Millions in Unending Grief
19+ min · · COVID is now the third leading cause of death—and therefore the third leading cause of grief—in the United States. · Shared by 104, including Jane, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Deborah Blum, Steve Silberman, Gregg Gonsalves, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Dr Ellie Murray, ScD, Mar Hicks, Timothy Caulfield, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD
Tricycle Magazine: The Buddhist Review
How to Handle Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough
4 min · · Our path isn’t about escaping this world, it’s about becoming more intimate with it. · Shared by 129, including Jane