Permission to Grieve—Virtual Workshop with Glenda Stansbury
WHEELING, IL— “If you boil down everything all of the grief authors have ever written or said, it comes down to ‘permission.’ People need permission to grieve. The...
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Funeral Service and Grief Work- How to Support Bereaved Families as a Funeral Professional
Funeral professionals are often the first point of contact for families experiencing grief. A huge part of any job in a funeral home is dealing with difficult emotions...
The Assault of Grief
A funeral director fills an extraordinary role. Death care workers help survivors navigate life beyond the death of a loved one, often for the first time. Handling grief...
Bad News Is Traveling Too Fast: The Problem With Social Media, FindAGrave, and Instant Notifications
From his social media posts, you’d think one of my Facebook friends was a coroner, funeral director, or clairvoyant. I say this because rarely does a week go...
Netflix’s Surviving Death Yields Insight—About the Living
Ostensibly an exploration of experiences and practices that hint at the existence of life after death, Netflix's Surviving Death docuseries, based on the book by Leslie Kean, does...
Feeling Compassion Fatigue? Here are Five Ways to Decompress over Thanksgiving.
Search any list of “most stressful jobs” and you’ll find the usual: firefighters, pilots, police officers, CEOs, and soldiers. You know as well as anyone that “funeral director”...
Heartbreaking Video Captures A Young Woman’s Tweets About Her Brain Cancer In The Final Months Of Her Life
We all deal with struggle and grief in different ways. We are all individuals and we make our own choices. What works for me might not work for...