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A bit early, but for Father’s Day, I couldn’t think of a more eloquent statement of love and respect for a father than Meghan’s eulogy of her father–LL Meghan McCain at the National Cathedral, Washington, DC For video, click HERE “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate […]
Continue Readingby Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD A common media question I have been asked recently is “What do you think about having funerals before the person is dead?” As you probably know, these are often referred to as “living funerals.” Living funerals have been referred to by the media as an “up and coming” trend that […]
Continue ReadingEDITORS NOTE: DURING THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEK, WE ARE RE-POSTING THIS IN HONOR OF ALL THOSE WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THIS NATION. One of the saddest family stories of WWII was the death of the five Sullivan brothers from the USS Juneau in 1942. Below is a their story in brief, and President […]
Continue ReadingWhen I was a young boy in Brooklyn in the early 1950s, I vividly recall a man on the block rolling up his sleeve and showing me a blue tattoo of a numbers running up his forearm. The meaning of this had to be explained to me. I was perhaps five years old, but it […]
Continue ReadingWhen a parent loses their spouse, they’re suddenly faced with a world that looks very different. The person they have built a life with is gone, and they must now navigate the changes and challenges of everyday life without them. As a child of this grieving parent, it can be difficult to know how to […]
Continue ReadingGrief Poem 124 Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough by R.L. Nona If we had been given one more year to watch the sun set on the far mountains, float on our backs in salt ponds shaded by ancient willows that protest the weight of their leaves, and hold each other close as the seasons […]
Continue Reading“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.” — Norman Cousins Today loneliness is a crisis that cuts across cultures, continents, and classes. Britain has added a Minister for Loneliness to its federal government. In the United States, thirty-five percent of adults over the age of 45 report feeling lonely. […]
Continue Reading“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” — Steve Jobs For quite a few decades now, our culture has put on a pretty convincing show of whistling past the graveyard. Americans have long had high levels of assumed invulnerability. We pretended death didn’t exist. Starting in […]
Continue ReadingLiving through the loss of a loved one is a universal experience. But the ways in which we experience and deal with the pain can largely differ. What Experts Say: Psychotherapists say that grief is not a problem to be solved, but a process to be lived through, in whatever form it may take. How to Help: Experiencing […]
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