Necessary public health protections have affected people’s access to dying loved ones, limited their participation in important rituals, and reduced their social support.
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Our health-care system needs to respond in a more just, inclusive, caring and timely way to allow in-person final goodbyes from those who matter most to those at the end of life.
A scholar conducted over 70 hours of interviews with people involved in the medical and funerary professions to understand the impact of changes in death rituals during the pandemic.
Writing can help work through some of the emotions and boost wellbeing.
Behind the statistics are real people with real life stories of illness, death, disruption, sorrow and even despair.
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.
Samhain will be particularly poignant this year for Wiccans who are members or veterans of the US military as they process the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
Understanding liminality and its origins can provide ways to better understand the foggy, ambiguous space we’re experiencing right now.
Over 130 hours of conversations with older people reveal the truth of what it’s like to get old and how to cope with loneliness.
A shortage of school psychologists will pose serious problems as children return to school with higher levels of stress and anxiety, two experts on student mental health say.
We are living through a one-in-one hundred year event. We are all doing the best we can. And that’s not only OK, it’s enough.
Many people are starting to celebrate the return to a pre-pandemic life. How does that feel to those who have suffered losses and are still grieving?
The negative impact of the pandemic on grief has raised concerns. Our study shows that 15 per cent of people dealing with grief are at risk of what’s known as complicated grief.
COVID-19 has impacted an important moment in many people’s lives: grieving the loss of a loved one. Here are some things that can help if you’re far away.
China limited families to one child from 1980 to 2015 to curb population growth. The policy paid off economically for the country, but it left couples whose only child died grieving and impoverished.
On Father’s Day, a scholar of ancient Greek poetry explains how he came to understand the father-son relationship and his journey of loss and yearning through reading the epics.
A scholar of Greek literature writes why we need to turn to the past to understand the present – and the lessons that Homer’s hero, Odysseus, holds for us.
As the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, it might be time to consider how our modern age wants to remember this plague.
Every day, the internet fills up with more and more dead people while our ability to reanimate them grows. The dead are more robust and more vulnerable — and we’re not ready for any of this.
The Canadian government needs to develop a national grief strategy to address the needs of its citizens during and after the pandemic.
Top contributors
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor, Social Work, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Lakehead University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Professor Emeritus of Death Studies, University of Bath
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Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute Melbourne, La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
