DEATH AND GRIEF
I grieve for many things; the engine of my grief changes, sometimes hourly. I grieve for our increasingly hostile and uninhabitable world, and I grieve for the cruelties that make it so, both structural ones and ones that individuals inflict on one another. But today I am grieving because I struggle to fathom all of the material loss of meaningful ... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
Back home in Chicago, my parents grew old. I didn’t see this happening and neither did they. They were busy birdwatching, attending new plays, trying new restaurants. Our relationship had mellowed and warmed with time. But then my father, my sweet, strong, and only father—he began to die, and then he died. Words that still don’t sound true five yea... See more
Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. Every single one of us will die, and most of us have no idea how or when that will happen. In fact, as each second passes, we’re all in the process of coming closer to our eventual deaths. As the saying goes, none of us will get out of here alive.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Apart from losing social connectedness with the deceased, the majority of mourners lose social connectedness either with their family or friends/social circle, due to difficulty accepting the loss, and try and adapt to a new reality without the deceased and everything they represented (i.e. common daily activities carried out together, common targe... See more
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People always say you just get over it on a random Tuesday. I didn’t believe that was true until it happened to me. When a wound is fresh, it’s so difficult to envision a future where this person doesn’t matter so much to you anymore. But over time, as the months accumulate and as you go about your routines, you start to realize that you’ve gradual... See more
Faith Zapata • girl who is going to be okay
“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all,” Cormac McCarthy wrote in one of his last novels.
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I understand this element of loss, the exercise of cataloguing all that cannot come back, at least not in its original form.
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
I do not desire any technology that might bring my late mother back to life, allow me to hear her voice or her laugh again. I believe that what makes the dead worthy of our grieving (by which I mean our memories, our returns, our affections) is that they cannot come back.
Lessons for the End of the World
Grief is not an illness to cure or a disease to overcome. Mourning is an inherent aspect of wellness, as long as mortality defines our existence.