Grief Awareness 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on UnsplashThere are a few reasons that I want to bring attention to grief. The first is my friend Jane who works as a Volunteer for Cruse told me to! The second is that that we are not good at talking about death and grief. It has become a taboo. Death and [...]
Book review: Julia Samuel Grief Works I have a lot of books in my study about the meaning of life, life’s purpose, man’s search for meaning, and more, but I only have one book about death. On reflection this is a little odd since the one thing we can be certain of [...]
Things to say or not to say when someone is grieving? Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash I was chatting with a friend about a blog I had written on grief. She told me that someone she knew well had recently suffered a tragic bereavement. She was close to this person but admitted that she [...]
Living With Grief Personal grief experiences Esther Rantzen recently presented a personal and sensitive documentary on Channel 5 exploring living with grief. Her husband the broadcaster Desmond Wilcox died 20 years ago. We are introduced to 5 people all with different experiences of death and all at different stages of mourning. They talk to Esther [...]
Grief (assisted by Covid-19) Photo by Alessio Lin on Unsplash How is Covid-19 affecting people's grief? I have been thinking about grief over the past 2 months and how Covid-19 has made things worse. My cousin in Ireland recently died and also my children’s nanny. Their deaths touched me, but not with the intensity that their immediate family [...]