Tag: grief

Notes from an awful winter.

After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.

The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?

Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.

How do you bring yourself to plan for a baby after three miscarriages in a row?

My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.

After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.

How many not-quite-parents are bearing the pain of miscarriage silently and alone?

Since my father’s death, I dream about descents and falls. How, without warning, gravity has you in its grip.

How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?

Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss and what we remember when we try to forget.

Sometimes death takes a torturously slow, scenic route.

Jacqueline Dooley recalls her difficult transition from being a mother with earthly duties, to becoming one with more spiritual concerns for a teenage daughter with terminal cancer.

After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.

How a family of five learned how to be a family of four.

Anna Armstrong recalls a road trip to escape her grief-stricken home — dragging her 13-year-old brother to see R.E.M.

After a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly retreats to the Hudson Valley where she is converted into a ‘nature person.’

A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.

“The trills in his notes sputter and lift. He sounds like an animal in trouble. Like a lounge singer who’s lost his mind.”

Discovering the show when she was a teenager in 1990 helped A.N. Devers navigate the grief of losing her grandparents—and her girlhood.

Seth Davis Branitz had an awful suspicion he’d feel relieved when, some day, his very troubled brother would pass. He had no idea about the other ends it would rapidly bring with it.

The New Yorker staff writer on her new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply.’

What they don’t tell you about death—or what you don’t really understand until it happens close to you—is how permanent it is. In the months afterward I kept thinking to myself, all right, I get it. This is too painful. Let’s just take a little break from the loss. Let’s have a weekend off. A […]

Nancy Westaway explores the nuances of grief in our digital society — how our tweets and emails can comfort our loved ones after we’re gone.

Roxane Gay examines her own feelings on tragedy and atrocity and in doing so, helps us find compassion in grief and anger.

Hawks aren’t social animals like dogs or horses; they understand neither coercion nor punishment. The only way to tame them is through positive reinforcement with gifts of food. You want the hawk to eat the food you hold – it’s the first step in reclaiming her that will end with you being hunting partners. But […]

GROSS: What are some of the most painful things that have happened to you that you’ve ended up making jokes about on stage? Ms. RIVERS: Oh, where do you start? My husband’s suicide. GROSS: Right. Ms. RIVERS: Some man, 60 years old, that couldn’t take the business and went and killed himself. How do you […]