Category Archives: Grief and grieving
In the Boston Globe, From grief comes giving For six months now, Michael, Karen, and their daughter, Julie, have been without Lex, their blond, brown-eyed 22-year-old son, who died after a brain aneurysm on a Tiverton, R.I., beach in January. – A few months after Lex died, Michael decided that his family still had a [...]
The sad story of the parents who so grieved the death of their son 5 who had been paralyzed in a car accident and died of pneumonia that they carried off his body in a rucksack and, in a final family outing, drove to a seaside cliff where they leaped to their deaths. They just [...]
Now that they have found a debris trail, we are beginning to learn what happened to Air France 447. France is sending a research ship equipped with two mini-subs but the chances of retrieving the “black box” in the vast deep ocean remain slim. But whether lightening and heavy turbulence , an electrical failure or [...]
A very interesting piece on the difference between male and female grieving. Bereaved fathers find healing in bonds of friendship For Bigham, it was a tutorial of sorts, taught by those whose children had died before his daughter. “They looked more normal than I felt,” he says. “I had a sense of a road map [...]
The dome of the cathedral at L’Aquila after the earthquake Italy Mourns Earthquake Victims The funeral for about 200 the earthquake victims in L’Aquila took place outside because none of the region’s churches were stable enough for the ceremony. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other key government officials were among the 10,000 people attending the [...]
Death on a Friday Afternoon by Richard John Neuhaus Such was the curious bond between Jesus and Mary, in the cradle and on the cross. As a baby he first awoke to the Absolute—to “God”—in the loving presence of a mother who was for him the reassuring field of reality. She was the secure field [...]
In going through the papers of her late husband, Amy Wellborn came across this column Michael Dubriel wrote in 1995 entitled Remembering the Dead. If my great-grandfather was present when visiting his wife’s grave, he would speak to her in his native Polish in a quiet voice as though he was informing her of the [...]
Meghan O’Rourke details the grief she experienced following the death of her mother “Normal” vs “complicated” grief One afternoon, about three weeks after my mother died, I Googled “grief.” I was having a bad day. It was 2 p.m., and I was supposed to be doing something. Instead, I was sitting on my bed (which [...]
Crying as Catharsis Isn’t Always the Case “You can’t work through grief if you’re stuck in protest crying, which is all about fixing it, fixing the loss,” Dr. Nelson said. “And in therapy — as in close relationships — protest crying is very hard to soothe, because you can’t do anything right, you can’t undo [...]
You know those people you like but haven’t heard from in awhile. Varifrank writes I hadn’t heard from him in awhile, so I looked him up today and discovered in the process that he was no longer with us. There are times when a Google search can be like the ‘angel of death’ and this [...]
