Funerals are the very last personal event for a person. It marks the life lived while allowing loved ones to say goodbye. Each funeral may be conducted in any way by the family or loved ones and may include religious, spiritual, humanist, or secular elements. Some may end in a cremation, while others include a …
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When the Self Has Gone by Zaji Cox What is it to grieve the loss of a self? Of the self? With the loss of another, grief comes naturally. Unique to the person, it moves through the body and mind in waves, in bursts, in shadows and clouds. It rests in corners, ready to …
Why I Keep Asking the Dying Men in My Life to Promise Me a Few More Years Because my earliest memories are of being promised the opposite. Because I know exhaustion is silent and any words will do. Because I want to be more peace than regrets. Because i am chewing at deficits. Because I’ve …
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It must have been difficult for Allen Callaci to follow his memoir Heart Like a Starfish, which is a painfully intimate discussion of his near-death heart replacement surgery and the way he dealt with the reality of mortality. His newest memoir, 17 & Life, takes just as sensitive an approach to life and death. I …
1. An earthquake starts—at least if you live in the kind of apartments that I have almost always lived in—with a crack. When you hear the sound of a 2×4 giving way you know the crack is not a self-contained snap! but a clap calling you to attention for what follows, the commencement of waiting …
Petya Dubarova lived in Burgas, Bulgaria. She was a young poet with a fascinating career ahead of her. She took her own life when she was sixteen years of age. I think that she had a very promising career as poet ahead of her. The questions I have are the following. Was she depressed, was …
Losing a loved one is traumatic for both men and women. However, it is also true that, generally speaking and largely due to cultural and social conditioning, men and women experience and express grief differently. Understanding and appreciating these differences can go a long way towards helping both the bereaved and the members of their …
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Penny Kreitzer is a remarkable person, teacher, actor, writer, and mother. Penny is also a close friend; we teach together at UC Berkeley. Penny’s life changed four years ago when her daughter Annais was killed; Penny’s personal journey has been one of openness and grief, which she now shares in this profound TEDx Talk. All …
I am searching. I still can’t find her. I look where the cats claw the hardwood floors, at shreds of paper that tumble in and out of my periphery. Above the bend of my neighbor’s high-pitched cackle, at each shadow that moves and disappears. A thump outside or a flash of light. They all send …
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