Monthly Archives: July 2018

My late mother was an avid fan of the Peruvian national soccer team. This year “la Blanquirroja” is playing in its first World Cup in more than three decades. As I cheer them on, it’s impossible not to feel sadness … Continue reading →

It isn’t easy asking a dying person what they believe comes next. But my philosopher dad knew just what to say. Source: The Big Question and the Perfect Answer – Modern Loss

After my mother died July 4th weekend, I tried to keep celebrating the holiday with cookouts and fireworks — until I found a better way. Source: Saying No to the Fourth – Modern Loss

Anticipatory Grief is this week’s AfterTalk Ask Dr. Neimeyer. A mother knows her  daughter will die of a medical condition before she turns 40 in 10 years Source: Anticipatory Grief: my daughter’s fate – Ask Dr. NeimeyerAsk Dr. Neimeyer

Declared dead after a car accident‚ a Gauteng woman was discovered alive inside a mortuary fridge by forensic officers. Source: Getting it dead wrong: Gauteng woman found alive in morgue fridge

Great writing on hospice and palliative medicine from clinicians in the field. Source: Let’s Stop Claiming That Palliative Care Improves Survival ~ Pallimed

Anticipatory Grief is this week’s AfterTalk Ask Dr. Neimeyer. A mother knows her  daughter will die of a medical condition before she turns 40 in 10 years Source: Anticipatory Grief: my daughter’s fate – Ask Dr. NeimeyerAsk Dr. Neimeyer

This week we share a post from Sharon, who writes about the realities of suicide loss after losing her son. What people see on the outside is often not congruent with what we feel on the inside. They don’t see … Continue reading →

At the age of 18, I had lost both my parents in the space of a year to cancer, I had been to more funerals than I had weddings, and for the next ten or so years, I went on … Continue reading →

Source: Grief Healing: Pet Loss: Afraid to Love My Remaining Pets