Tag: mourning

“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”

Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.

Nowadays, we live online, and so we grieve here too. But there are limits to the comfort digital mourning can provide.

“There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”

“My father is dead, I said to myself, my father is dead. Again and again I said it, and still I failed to grasp what it meant.”

“To my surprise, Disney World was not a difficult place to be while in mourning. To me it didn’t feel like an escape from grief, so much as a continued break from unendurable real life.”

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

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

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.

Isaac Blum writes in the Iowa Review about his young sister’s death, the shadow Heinz ketchup casts over his family, and the different ways people mourn.

Ironically, it was this desire to be close to the dead that ultimately helped usher bodies out of the home. Embalming—which advanced as a science around the same time as the Civil War—allowed for the corpses of men who had died on far-off battlefields to return home for some semblance of the Good Death. “Families […]