Losing a Loved One

It can be difficult to find the strength to keep family traditions alive, especially if the person who loved them so much is no longer around to share in the experience.

Perhaps for the first time, I saw the world through the eyes of a dying man, and it was so much better. Time moved slower, the flowers were brighter, people were kinder, and my family and friends were more meaningful.

Attending a funeral is beneficial not only to those closest to the bereaved, but is a healing and necessary way to help them -- and us -- move on. And to remind us that every moment counts.

At the intellectual level everybody knows we are going to die, but what does death really mean? One interpretation is that we suffer because we do not understand or fully relate to impermanence.

Would we even have a perspective as to what life is if there was no death? Life is what it is only because death is.

Deat is a part of life, and I welcome that they are part of the 21st century chronicles of life, reality television and the Internet--mediums that have the power to inform, connect and entertain.

While I purchase gifts for my husband's mother and his stepmother, I can't choose anything for the one woman I'd like to buy something for the most. My mother.

As I weep over my big sweet dogs, I wince off and on, a little embarrassed that in a world where each newscast brings new images of heart-wrenching human tragedy, I continue to be so broken up over them.

Propped in a hospital bed, Eva Markvoort sat surrounded by her family and said into the camera, "My life is ending." Markvoort had cystic fibrosis, a...

We've already learned that Elena Kagan is a remarkable woman with outstanding professional credentials. Something else, however, may be even more revealing about her character.

I am personally a huge fan of facebook. It has been like this guilty little pleasure that felt too unprofessional to talk about. Well, fast forward to April 5, 2010, the day my father died.

How to talk about end of life care: the essential conversation that will let you make decisions consistent with your loved one's wishes.

"You're my best friend," I told my brother. He was trying to breathe, lying in a hospice bed in Boca Raton. My sons were also leaning over him, "Breat...

The choice for a timely natural death begins with education. First, you must know your options - the steps you can take if you arrive at the point where you would prefer death to continued suffering.

Losing a loved one is always hard. The emotional impact isn't lessened when loss happens to a child. Though the death of a parent is a traumatic event in a child's life, we feel at a loss how to help.

One minute a person is part of our lives and then in the next they are gone -- leaving a huge hole in our lives. How to make sense of it?

Behind our holiday smiles and good wishes, many of us carry feelings of deep grief.� So how can we have a wonderful holiday if we are experiencing s...

Unlike many couples whose outside interests take them in opposite directions, Carol and I were joined at the hip. We did everything together. When she passed away, I was more alone than I had ever been.