grief
Mourning Your Pet Like You're Grieving a Person Is Totally Normal
How to deal with losing a pet, according to people who've gone through it.
I Asked My Friends What They'd Write on Their Gravestones
"If you were walking around a cemetery and I made you laugh from the depths of the afterlife, my mission is complete."
‘Reservation Dogs’ Showed Me an Indigenous Way to Grieve
After my dad's death, the show's second season reminded me that lost relatives also find ways to help us heal.
Dead Babies Married in a Wedding Ceremony Decades After Their Deaths
Folded ornate clothes represented the couple in the ceremony.
What It Feels Like to Mourn a Parent in Your 20s and 30s
Grieving is never easy, especially when you belong to a generation that can find it difficult to grow up.
Prolonged Grief Is Now Labelled a Disorder. Not All Psychiatrists Agree.
At a time when many are facing extreme loss and pain, the “psychiatry bible” just included a new diagnosis: prolonged grief disorder. Some experts aren't happy about this.
Ellen Virgona’s Photos Draw on the Depths of Grief and Mourning
“Particularly in Western culture, there is so much stigma around discussing grief and loss.”
Dogs Grieve When Other Dogs Die, Study Suggests
Eighty-six percent of dog owners reported negative responses in their surviving dog after the death of a canine companion, reports a new study.
The Best Books to Help You Cope With Death and Dying
How the wisdom of Joan Didion, death doulas, and Big Bird have prepped me to dance into the void (and plan my estate).
What to Expect When You Lose a Parent in Your Twenties
From pushing yourself to exercise, to sleep, to chucking belongings, here's your step-by-step guide to moving through grief intact.
Fatigued, Fearful, Hopeless: India’s COVID Crisis Is Ravaging Our Mental Health
We thought we were on the other side of the horror. Turns out, we were just getting into its epicentre.
If You’re Feeling ‘Delayed Grief’ From a Pandemic Loss, You’re Not Alone
The world is beginning to re-open, but post-vax reunions are a painful reminder of the loss some people will have to adjust to in the “new normal.”