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    My Best Friend Is Dying: Grief, Growth and Getting On With Our Lives By Mary Fridley

    By Mary Fridley   I haven’t felt like writing lately. My best friend is in the final stages of cancer (or cancers to be exact), so it’s been harder to focus on putting words to paper and other life activities. My best friend is Dr. Susan Massad, who I’ve had…

    Grief Stricken: How The Pandemic Has Affected Our Grief Rituals

    Early in the pandemic, we reported on the way funeral plans and mourning rituals were changing as a result of the devastation of the coronavirus. Little did we realize that months later, so many of us would be grappling with the new realities of loss and death as we struggle…

    Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying, where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief.

    “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be…

    Options At The End: Funerals And Grief During The Pandemic

    From funeral homes to cemeteries, no aspect of the death “industry” has been untouched by the coronavirus. As one expert has said, “This feels like 3 years of funerals condensed into one month.” Since it’s unknown how long the virus lasts within the tissues of a deceased person, funeral staff…

    Grief and Death

    Life Goes On: Grief And Mourning In The 21st Century

    While loss may be an inevitable fact of life, none of us easily gets over the trauma of losing a loved one. The outrage, the grief, the sadness all take a toll on our physical and mental health, to the point where our own health and even mortality may be…