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Parentless Parents: Time Is Running Out

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, New Year's Resolutions, Feelings, Grief, Community, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parents, Fathers, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

One of the surprising findings I've come across so far is just how isolated many parentless parents feel and how few turn to others for help.

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Dealing With The Death Of My Husband

Rosalie Stolinski Siciliano | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Emotions, Husband, Loss, Grief, Death & Dying, Family, Living News
Rosalie Stolinski Siciliano

When my husband died it was like being hit by a tornado. The storm hits and the damage is done. Now -- how to go about being repaired.

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Parentless Parents: Using The Holidays To Keep The Memory Of Your Parents Alive -- Part 2

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday Season, Parenting Tips, Holiday Season Commentary, Orphans, Motherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parenthood, Grieving, Death, Grief, Fatherhood, Parenting Advice, Parents, Fathers, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

All you have to do is make a conscious decision to slow down long enough -- not so easy this time of year, I admit -- to simply talk with your children about the grandparents they no longer have in their lives.

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Christmas Without Carol

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Christmas, Marriage, Losing a Loved One, Loneliness, Depression, Relationships, Grief, Death & Dying, Mourning, Coping, Loss, Love, Sadness, Living News
John W. Whitehead

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.

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Parentless Parents: Using The Holidays To Keep The Memory Of Your Parents Alive -- Part 1

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting Tips, Grief, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Parenting Advice, Death, Fathers, Grieving, Parents, Parenthood, Death & Dying, Living News
Allison Gilbert

Less than half of all mothers and fathers who have taken the Parentless Parents survey say they use the holidays to talk about their parents who have died. Why so few?

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Suicide Prevention: R U OK?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Depression, Relationships, Dying, R U OK, Grief, Mourning, Death and Dying, Suicide, Coping, Loss, Suicide Prevention, Family, Death, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

R U OK? is an Australian national suicide prevention effort that seeks to reduce the rate of suicide by breaking the isolation and helplessness that characterizes people at risk to take their lives.

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Managing Grief Around The Holiday

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Holidays, Mental Health, Codependency, Grief, Acoa, Death & Dying, Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

The holidays are a time of heightened reality. A time to reaffirm bonds of friendship and family. The general merriment of the season can make what we...

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What I've Learned About Grief During the Holidays

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 12.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Holidays, Holiday-Blues, Holiday Season, Family Stress Holidays, Grief, Surviving the Holidays, Grieving, Parents, Chicago News
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston

My parents died six months apart. Grief has become my new companion. I walk my familiar paths a different person.

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Surviving A Loved One's Suicide

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Suicide, Mourning, Sin, Death, Family, Heaven, Hell, Death & Dying, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Once someone you love commits suicide, you become a suicide survivor. That is what you are called. If someone you love dies of natural causes, you are not called a survivor. Suicide is different.

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Love, loss and friendship: Getting over the death of a child

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Support, Women, Holidays, Meningococcal Disease, Meningitis, Living News, Loss, Support Group, Friendship, National Meningitis Association, Lynn Bozof, Health, Grief, Mom, Living, Vaccine, Nma, Dying, Death, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

There is no pain greater than the loss of a child. Parents who have suffered such a tragedy say that they never get over it; at best, they get through...

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Parentless Parents: Do You Put On A "Happy Face" For The Holidays?

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Holidays, Holiday Season, Grief, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Death, Fathers, Grieving, Parents, Living News
Allison Gilbert

'Tis the Season to be Jolly, right? I see reminders everywhere that I should be happy! But what happens if the month of December serves not only to remind you of all things Merry -- but of all the people you've lost?

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Movie Review Of 'Brothers': Brilliant Direction Matched By Brilliant Acting

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tobey Maguire, Grief, Valor, Afghanistan, Jim Sheridan, Spider Man, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

It has been said that war movies do not create good box office but that has been disputed by the success of the amazing film "The Hurt Locker." Now comes "Brothers" to further smash this concept.

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Hearts And Souls: A Family Deals With Grief

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Emotions, Relationships, Mother, Grief, Death and Dying, Memory, Oscar Wilde, Coping, Father, Loss, Love, Family, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

I cried from beginning to end at my uncle's funeral, and strangely required no place to hide in a room filled with hundreds of mourners -- perhaps because I was as alone as every person there.

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5 Ways To Cope With Holiday Grief

intent.com | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Holidays, Depression, Dying, Grief, Thanksgiving, Death and Dying, Mourning, Coping, Losing-a-Loved-One, Loss, Holiday Season, Sadness, Anxiety, Gratitude, Death, Living News

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...

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7 Reasons Crying Is Good for You

divinecaroline.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Relationships, Crying, Psychology, Germs, Wellness, Dehydration, Toxins, Stress, Emotions, Grief, Health, Tears, Clarity, Bacteria, Anxiety, Hydration, Sadness, Spirituality, Living News

Tears are just one of many miracles we taken them for granted every day. Here are seven ways tears heal us physiologically, psychologically, and spiri...

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The Art of Rewriting The Holidays

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: The Third Chapter, Featured-Contributor, 5 Actions for Rewriting, The New York Times, Tips for Holiday Season, Jim Loehr, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Dr.Gene Cohen, Holiday Stress, The Washington Post, The Power of Story, Thanksgiving, Grief, Death and Dying, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

"'Tis' the Season." The question is, for what? With all the stressors around, what might help this year as we launch?

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How to Teach Your Children About Death, Part 2

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Love, Hope, Dogs, Grief, Life, Death, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.

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My Father Is Dying

Judy Wieder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, After-Death, Family, Lgbt, Dying, The Advocate, Mourning, Parenting, Loss, Death, Acceptance, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Grief, Coping, Fatherhood, Judy Wieder, Fathers, Living News
Judy Wieder

Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.

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Death And Dying: Nature Is Selfish, Get Over It

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Tragedy, Grief, Selfishness, Sex-in-a-Hurry, The Full Life, Love, Life, Selfish, Death & Dying, Living News
Deborah Calla

It is brutally shocking when our lives are falling apart and the rest of the world doesn't seem to notice. The first time I experienced this was when my husband was lying in a hospital bed fighting for his life.

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Few Americans Make End-Of-Life Wishes Known

hosted.ap.org | Matt Sedensky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Aging, Americans, Dying Wish, Dying, End of Life Care, Relationships, Grief, Health, Mourning, Death and Dying, Loss, Health Care, Nursing Home, Death, Living News

Unlike most Americans, Lillian Landry made her end-of-life decisions years ago: no heroic measures to save her and even instructions on the bar where ...

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War Dead and Differential Grief

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grief, War, War Wire, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

This year we have lost a total of 429 soldiers, an average of 1.2 per day, every day of the year, or the equivalent of a Ford Hood every 11 days. We should all ponder that.

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Small Grief and Dealing with The Rainbow Bridge

Matt Budd | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Pets, New York City, Health, Grief, Pet Death, Living News
Matt Budd

It's normal to feel angry, normal to feel guilty, normal to feel sad, normal to hallucinate: That's what I learned recently when my cat Velma died.

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11 Therapies To Help Deal With Loss

World of Psychology | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Therapy, Loneliness, Depression, Grief, Health, Death and Dying, Mourning, Coping, Loss, Love, Sadness, Death, Grieving, Living News

When you do something to relieve your feelings and to give yourself a sense of achievement, you are accomplishing your journey through bereavement....

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Broadway Play Tackles Issues of Death

nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Broadway Play, Women, Fear, Dying, Mourning, Death and Dying, Broadway, Loss, Death, Grief, Anna Deavere Smith, Coping, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Health Care, Lance Armstrong, Living News

Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...

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Helping Children Grieve

Rose Winters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Death, Grief, Death & Dying, Death and Dying, Mourning, Losing-a-Loved-One, Parenting, Loss, Anxiety, Living News
Rose Winters

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.

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