The Guardian | March 26, 2016 When my father arrives in the hospice, there is a flurry of activity. Drug charts are checked, vital signs are tested. We all know he has come here to die, but still the idea…
Mark Roth for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 14, 2016 “Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.” — Christian Nevell Bovee That epigram, from an early American writer, has a great deal of scientific truth to it, says University of Pittsburgh psychiatry professor Lauren…
Emily Zarecki for Huffington Post | March 14, 2016 It wasn’t until July 2009 that I had ever given the idea of a new normal, not to mention the need for finding one, any thought. There wasn’t a need for…
Meredith Borders for Birth Movies Death | March 13, 2016 In Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallée tackled the nature of memory: how it shapes us, the quiet and surprising way it sneaks into our present through a half-phrase from a song,…
Linda Scruggs for Huffington Post | March 3, 2016 It has always struck me how the most powerful and wealthy can have almost anything they desire, yet our most valuable commodity remains elusive to all. The time we are given….
Mark Roth for Pittsburg Post Gazette | March 14,2016 Every person who has lost a beloved parent, child, friend or spouse knows. Grief never completely goes away. “There used to be this concept of closure, [where some people] said here…
Traumatic current events or the death of a loved one can add stress to the season; NHPCO offers advice
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Through her ground-breaking research and writings, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross helped revolutionize how the medical community cared for the terminally ill.
Many 18th- and 19th-century presidents suffered the loss of one or more children. Historians are still tallying the costs to both our leaders and the public.