Losing a loved one in traumatic circumstances can lead to persistent grief that does not ease over time.
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Sharing administrative tasks and reminiscing on family moments can bring siblings together during tough times.
Whose lives are considered worth grieving? Why is Queen Elizabeth’s life and death considered more grievable by authorities than Indigenous people, overdose victims or anyone else?
Grieving the queen’s passing can be different to grieving the loss of someone we were close to. It’s also complicated by politics, colonialism and the contest about who she really was.
An expert on grief says give people space and time to come to terms with loss and don’t expect them to need – or want – ‘closure.’
We have also lost moments of shared empathy – a space for others to see people who are travelling the same path.
Ukrainian families’ anguish at not being able to bury their loved ones underscores a deep human need, an anthropologist writes.
Necessary public health protections have affected people’s access to dying loved ones, limited their participation in important rituals, and reduced their social support.
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
Religious scholars and faith leaders reflect on the death rites cultures have developed to honor the deceased, comfort the living and share the burden of mourning.
A bereavement counsellor on grief, loss and longing.
Virtual music vigils after the Nova Scotia shootings draw on a long tradition of Atlantic Canadian disaster songs and ‘broadside ballads’ to mourn in a time of social distancing.
With digital immortality comes fear of digital erasure from those who treasure messages and photos of dead loved ones.
For many who know someone who has lost a loved one, it can be hard to know what to say or how to respond. For those who have lost a loved one, the silence can be deafening. Some things to keep in mind.
Why it’s okay to use social media to mourn.
As Paris tries to come to terms with what has happened, unified responses to the terror attacks will be crucial.
The need for grief expression is apparent across history and cultures. But how do we know what works? Since the first empirical study into acute grief by Erich Lindemann in 1944, the modern study of grief…
Dictators under siege in recent times have issued a range of public statements that seem to share a common theme: expressions of grief. But is that merely a construct of the media? Juxtapose the prostrate…
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Chair in Applied Regional Economics, Hunter Research Foundation Centre, University of Newcastle
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Hughes Professor of Classics, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology; Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions, Cape Breton University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sheffield
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Communications Coordinator, University of Cape Town
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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