Grief Conversations

Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die?...

Brenda Schmitz wrote a letter with three wishes right before she died, but asked a friend not to mail it...

It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t even true that you have to want to....

The whole family was there, though, and everyone was eating well and giving long, wordless hugs, and you could feel...

When Ben Nunery and his wife Ali got married in 2009, they had just closed on their new house, so...

It doesn’t seem like yesterday, but it is hard to believe it was a year ago that a gunman entered...

I picked up the phone with my rehearsed, “Hello. This is the Wilde Funeral Home. Caleb speaking.” The voice on...

From creating a heard-shaped meadow in memory of a loved one to building a monument in the middle of the...

A Facebook engineer said Thursday that the social network has informally experimented with an alternative to "like": specifically, the "sympathize"...

One day each of us will pass on and be no more. We will cease to be, expired stiff and...