Monthly Archives: September 2018

A pregnancy that was very wanted and a baby we were looking forward to only to have the baby stopped growing. Source: Nothing Hurts More Than Losing Something You Wanted – Unspoken Grief

Doak’s devotion to the dying was recently featured in a profile for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. Source: Joe Doak, Who Sat Vigil With Hospice Patients During Their Final Days, Dies At 96 | CPR

Source: Widower’s Grief: The Thereness of Grief

Source: When Wounds Don’t Heal

My finger reached for the first number to press on the phone’s keypad. I hesitated. I silently prayed. Since starting at my hospice job in 2012, I’ve averaged maybe fifty weekly bereavement phone calls, which means about 200 families per … Continue reading →

Before we get started, I just want to give a quick heads up about the content of this post. We’re … Source: When Death Moves In: grief after a death in the home – What’s Your Grief

We are all interconnected at every age.  We can best help children grieve if we address our inner child who is grieving, too. Source: Children and Grief | Debbie Augenthaler

New York lawmakers have approved a bill that would give employees in the Empire State three months paid bereavement leave to mourn the loss of a loved one – in turn, spurring concerns among business owners that the policy would … Continue reading →

A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead Source: Do Animals Experience Grief? | Science | Smithsonian

There is a goodbye in every hello, just as there is an end in every beginning. We all know that our inevitable finale is to leave this world, and hopefully we made an impact in this world and will … … Continue reading →