FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE is a famous sermon given by Rabbi Kenneth Berger on Yom Kippur day in the fall of 1986. It was inspired by the crash of the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986 and the subsequent revelation that the crew had likely survived the explosion and lived for another five minutes
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We Grieve, We Remember, We Support Each Other: Thoughts from a 9/11 Widow and Grief Advocate By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. We as a nation will never be “done” mourning the loss of 2,977 lives lost during the attack on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning at the World Trade Center in New York,
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For adult children managing estates, grandparents, or long-distance family ties after illness, divorce, or loss, preserving family memories can feel urgent and strangely slippery. Photos scatter across phones, stories live in half-remembered conversations, and the small details that make a person unmistakably themselves can fade faster than expected. A digital memory book offers a steadier
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Editor: whenever we run a post about pet loss we get a lot of touching comments. Here are some of them. The photos are of my lost pets. LL I lost my beautiful little girl shitzu cookie last week .she was so much fun and she slept by my feet. Loved to run around and
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Grief is the emotional response to loss—most often the death of someone deeply loved—and it affects not just the heart, but daily life, decisions, and responsibilities. For people facing grief, the pain rarely arrives alone. It arrives with paperwork, phone calls, household tasks, financial choices, and long-term decisions that can feel impossible without the person
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