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AI ghosts, the recreation of digital versions of the dead, may sound like a wonderful idea to those dealing with the pain of loss but this technology could seriously disrupt the grieving process
Most workplace bereavement policies were designed prior to MAID and very few employers have adjusted these policies in light of the new reality of living and dying in Canada.
Alabama’s case began when three couples sued an IVF clinic where their frozen embryos had accidentally been dropped.
Research suggests that music therapy can help support people before and after a loved one’s death.
There are many social assumptions about how to best ‘get through’ grief. We interview 95 people about their experiences of loss and found we need to rethink what grief looks and feels like.
Mourning the loss of a loved one before they die is known as anticipatory grief. It’s a distressing state but can be managed, as two experts explain.
Children experience grief much more commonly than most of us think. This is what they want to know.
From Bali to China, Italy to India, the way people grieve varies greatly across the world.
The death of a pet can be a deeply painful experience. But acknowledging the way pet grief is different can help people find consolation.
Research shows people can undergo transformational experiences when they grieve.
Sharing administrative tasks and reminiscing on family moments can bring siblings together during tough times.
The death of the Queen may turn people’s minds to the loss of their own grandparents, or how the younger royals will cope.
Grief is messy, surprising, revealing and honest at different times and all at once. Here, it is also funny.
COVID-19 deaths tend to be more unexpected and traumatic than other types of deaths. A sociologist explains the mental health burdens facing the millions who’ve lost a relative to the coronavirus.
We have also lost moments of shared empathy – a space for others to see people who are travelling the same path.
Designing a memorial that helps the community grieve and heal is no easy task.
Today viewers may be preoccupied by the methods used by spirit photographers, but spirit photographs had a notable impact on the bereaved who commissioned the portraits.
The afterlife envisioned by spiritualism appealed to women who rejected the idea that their unbaptized children could be damned to hell.
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Reader in Sociology, University of Bath
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Lecturer of Health Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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PhD Candidate and Public Scholar, Communication Studies, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University
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Associate Professor, Business and Administration, University of Winnipeg
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Professor, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural History, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in Global Media Management, University of Southampton
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Professor of Social Policy and Ageing, University of Bristol
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Research associate in sociology, University of Bath
