Saints’ relics, locks of hair, the laying of flowers: keeping the dead close took many forms in the past. We could learn from them today.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Bereavement
Displaying 41 - 47 of 47 articles
Just ask Céline Dion – and countless others.
The boxer’s death follows hard on the heels of David Bowie and Prince. The world is losing global icons and learning how to grieve using new and democratic tools.
In fact, even a happy heart can break.
New research aims to bring hope to the often forgotten or stigmatised friends and relatives of those who die from drug or alcohol use.
When I read that Robin William’s daughter Zelda was deleting her Twitter and Instagram because of abusive messages in the aftermath of her father’s death, I recalled Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene…
The death of an infant is terrible for both parents, but for many mothers, physical reminders such as lactation, can seem incongruent when motherhood has been cut short. These women can find solace in…
Top contributors
-
Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
-
Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
-
Reader in Sociology, University of Bath
-
Lecturer of Health Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
-
PhD Candidate and Public Scholar, Communication Studies, Concordia University
-
Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
-
Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University
-
Associate Professor, Business and Administration, University of Winnipeg
-
Associate Professor, University of New England
-
Professor, University of Stirling
-
Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University
-
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History, Nottingham Trent University
-
Lecturer in Global Media Management, University of Southampton
-
Professor of Social Policy and Ageing, University of Bristol
-
Research associate in sociology, University of Bath
