Throw the Body Out with the Box: Thomas Lynch and Thomas Long on Seeing Off the Dead
A preacher, a funeral director and a dead body took a road trip through Michigan… It might sound like the opening line of a joke, but authors Thomas...
Grief & Loss
96-Year-Old Man Writes Tear-Jerking Song, ‘Oh Sweet Lorraine,’ For Late Wife (VIDEO)
Get out those tissue boxes. Because this 96-year-old man's love song for his late wife is guaranteed to make you tear up. Fred Stobaugh, from Peoria, Ill., wrote...
THE MOURNER’S BILL OF RIGHTS by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D
By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Though you should reach out to others as you do the work of mourning, you should not feel obligated to accept the unhelpful...
The Trauma of Being Alive
TALKING with my 88-year-old mother, four and a half years after my father died from a brain tumor, I was surprised to hear her questioning herself. “You’d think...