Everything and everyone we love, we eventually lose. Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by philosopher Jonathan Lear takes on this inevitability. Its central motif: Mourning can be a source ...

One day, on my last vacation, I got an email from work. It zipped past my away message to zing me with a little anxiety on my penultimate day off. There was a situation; they needed an email from me.

Grief and mourning are similar, but grief is an internal experience, while mourning includes outward actions such as memorials, rituals, or cultural practices. While grief is involuntary, mourning ...

I define grief quite simply as what one feels following a loss. Grief can feel crushingly sad, or it can feel like numbness. It can come in waves, or it can wait a month and then mow you down. It can ...

Experts agree on importance of traditions seen after Queen’s death in enabling bereaved to process loss The death of Queen Elizabeth II has plunged the royal household and much of the country into a ...

The feeling and public expression of grief and sorrow following the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022 has caught much of the British population off guard. It was inescapable that, at the ...

Maphi Mhlangu looks at South Africa’s national day of mourning for Eastern Cape flood victims, questioning whether ceremonial grief is meaningful when the poorest communities remain perpetually ...

Each summer, for three weeks, many Jews around the world engage in an ancient and communal act of mourning — culminating in a full fast on the 9th of Av, or Tisha b’Av. This day marks the destruction ...