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Alzheimer's: A Love Story

Irene Zutell | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Alzheimer's, Aging, Dementia, Alzheimers, Health, Mourning, Death and Dying, Coping, Parenting, Loss, Poem, Poetry, Wellness, Family, Living News
Irene Zutell

Is there a woman on the planet who doesn't get nervous the first time she meets her fiance's mom? But not only was I meeting my future in- law, I was being introduced to Alzheimer's.

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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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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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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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Chronicle Of A Death We Can't Accept

nytimes.com | THOMAS G. LONG | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Burial, Death and Dying, Mourning, The Inner Life, Memorial, Funeral, Death, Living News

For the first time in history, the actual presence of the dead at their own funerals has become optional, even undesirable, lest the body break the il...

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What Happens When You Lose A Soul Mate?

divinecaroline.com | : Catherine Behan (View Profile) | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Death and Dying, Mourning, Widow, Coping, Loss, The Inner Life, Love, Grieving, Death, Living News

She walked to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and paused, like always, gazing at the faded photo framed in the hallway. It had been twenty years a...

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How To Comfort The Grieving

beliefnet.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, Dying, Comfort, Death and Dying, Mourning, The Inner Life, Grieving, Death, Living News

When a person you care about is hurting, you hurt, too. When that person is grieving the loss of a loved one, there are some steps you can take to eas...

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A Goodbye to a Girl's Best Friend

Lora Somoza | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Saying Goodbye, Pets, Pneumonia, Love, Dogs, Death, Living News
Lora Somoza

A lot of people tell me that Sophie won the lotto with me, or that I took great care of her. But the truth is, she took the greatest care of me.

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Scott Foval | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Rememberance, Hate, Freedom, 9/11, Mourning, Good, Prayer, Evil, Loss, Love, Bigotry, Living News
Scott Foval

Never forget, but never give in to the hate. That is the challenge.

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Good Grieving

Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, General Hospital, Mothers, Escape, Mourning, Death, Living News
Elizabeth Donoghue

I try to honor my mother by my actions. She left her children a note. It says "help each other always." In her honor, I try to be there for my family more than ever.

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Accepting the Death of my Mother

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Death of a Parent, Death, Mourning, Grief, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

I reacted just like many others when my mother died unexpectedly last March at 86 after striking her head. I found it hard to get my arms around the idea that my mother was no longer alive.

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Girlfriends' Guide: We've Forgotten How To Mourn

Vicki Iovine | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Girlfriends' Guide, Mourning, Religion, Grief, Funeral, Death, Death & Dying, Mourn, Living News
Vicki Iovine

The reality is, losing a beloved is life-altering. We recover, but we are never the same. Everyone, if they we lucky, experiences grief and needs the protection and gentleness of those around us.

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Why Our Stories Matter

Holly Robinson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Gerbil Czar, Dad, In Search of Small Gods, A Million Little Pieces, Dying, James Frey, Mourning, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Jim Harrison, Father, Gerbils, Mockingbird, Navy, Death, Living News
Holly Robinson

The last time I called my father, he asked me what time it was. "Don't you have a watch, Dad?" I asked. "No, they always take those away when you ...

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How My Mother Fooled Me

Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning Parents, Mourning, Motherhood, Deceased Parent, Mother's Day, Mothers, Living News
Sherman Yellen

She had succeeded in making everyone who knew her feel that they mattered. What an achievement for one lifetime.

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Mother's Day for the Motherless

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Motherhood, Moms, Corporate America, Mother's Day, Grief, Living News
Leeat Granek, PhD

My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.

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Spring Equinox: Out with the Old Self and in with the New Self

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Mourning, Spring, Rebirth, Spring Equinox, New Paradigm, George Carlin, Grief, Orhpan, Re-Birth, Death, Home News
Kelly Carlin-McCall

Last Saturday was the Spring Equinox. A period of time similar to a full, human gestation has occurred, and yes, I am being born, again. And just like childbirth, it is a messy and painful experience.

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Death as Mystery: On Natasha Richardson

Marianne Williamson | Posted 04.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Mourning, Natasha Richardson Dead, Grief, Natasha Richardson Ski Accident, Natasha Richardson, Media News
Marianne Williamson

May that thought -- a Truth that casts out all darkness, even death itself -- be a comfort now to those who grieve Natasha Richardson, and to all of us who grieve at all.

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Tibetans Mark New Year With Remorse

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: China Tibet Crackdown, Tibetan New Year, Dalai Lama, Tibet Protests, Mourning, Losar, Free Tibet, Tibet, China, China Tibet, Lhasa, Ox Year, World News

The usually joyful celebration of the Tibetan New Year was met with sadness and resentment yesterday in Varanasi, an age-old city home to Tibetan refu...

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Berlinale 2009: The Anguish of Loss in Andrzej Wajda's "Sweet Rush" ("Tatarak")

Karin Badt | Posted 03.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Facing Loss, Janda, Berlinale, Sweet Rush, Tatarak, Wajda, Iwaszkiewicz, Mourning, Poland, Film, Andrzej Wajda, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Anguish seeps in every shot of famed Polish director Andrzej Wajda's new film "Sweet Rush". The movie maintains a rhythmic shift between poetic melancholy and sharp pain throughout.

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Death Makes Life Clear

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Artistic Endeavors, Memorial Service, Spiritual Practice, Life, Death, Mental Health, Grief, Mourning, Mortality, Grieving, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Death, whether we like it or not, makes life exceedingly clear. I just returned to Boston from New York City where I officiated a memorial service for a precious woman who died too young.

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Resurrective Ideology In An Age Of Trauma

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mourning, 9/11, Post-Traumatic Stress, George W. Bush, Politics News
Robert D. Stolorow

In the wake of 9/11, Americans became much more susceptible to resurrective ideologies that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that have been lost.

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Honk if You're Heartbroken

Megan Shank | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Sichuan, Memorial, China Earthquake, Mourning, China Earthquake Death Toll, Shanghai, Living News
Megan Shank

Today at approximately 2:30pm in Shanghai, a swell of horns surged outside of my 19th floor office window. It was one of the first in a three-day period of nationwide mourning.

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When Grief Won't Come

Peggy Drexler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Death in the Family, Mourning, Grief, Living News
Peggy Drexler

A friend of mine knocked on my door with some sad news. Her mother had died. As I sat beside her on the couch, I felt her sadness like an embrace. It...

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