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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I grew up with the author of this farewell to his family and friends. We were very close from elementary through middle school, but drifted apart. Later in life we reconnected on Facebook where he scheduled this post to appear two days after he died in his sleep. I still remember the girl I danced
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A Grief Observed From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of Black mourning. BY MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH June 22, 2017 Mamie Till-Mobley wrote her memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, in 2003, the same year she died of heart failure, and 47 years after the lynching of her son,
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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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