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Author: BY DAWN MACKEEN - Publish Date: December 9, 2021 at 02:05AM Prolonged grief disorder was recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, just as experts are predicting a coming wave of severe bereavement.

Author: BY TISH HARRISON WARREN - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 11:15PM Advent is an ideal time to grieve, reflect and look ahead.

Author: BY MARGARET RENKL - Publish Date: May 3, 2021 at 04:00PM Mother’s Day is a time for contemplating the ways we’re connected, through joy and sorrow, across time and across species.

Author: BY MEGAN SPECIA - Publish Date: May 1, 2021 at 04:00PM In WhatsApp chats, video calls, Facebook groups and forums, a global community has scrambled to save, and sometimes mourn, Covid-stricken loved ones.

Author: BY JASPAL RIYAIT - Publish Date: April 7, 2021 at 08:27AM The special project “What Loss Looks Like” presents personal artifacts belonging to those who have left us and explores what they mean to those left behind.

Author: BY ELIZABETH DIAS AND AUDRA D. S. BURCH - Publish Date: April 5, 2021 at 11:02AM As we look ahead to life after the pandemic, many people are reflecting on deep, personal questions about loss, love, and how to live.

Author: BY ELISA GABBERT - Publish Date: March 25, 2021 at 08:45AM Our poetry columnist writes about Valerie Mejer Caso’s “Edinburgh Notebook” and other works of vicarious grief.

Author: BY STACY BRICK - Publish Date: December 13, 2020 at 10:41AM We are at a time when large numbers of children are experiencing loss. Here are seven movies to help them develop coping skills.

Author: BY EMMA PATTEE - Publish Date: October 5, 2020 at 08:30AM Ever wondered how empathetic you are? Consider the advice of these five people who have spent their lives studying, understanding and practicing empathy.

Author: BY SIAN BEILOCK - Publish Date: February 3, 2020 at 07:00AM The ‘grief police’ wield lamentable shaming tactics.

Author: BY PEGGY WEHMEYER - Publish Date: September 13, 2019 at 07:18AM Along with everything else, I wasn’t prepared for the stigma of becoming a widow this way.

Author: KELLI AUERBACH - Publish Date: May 17, 2019 at 07:00AM The loss punches you in the face, sneaks away but peeps around a corner to stare at you blankly, punches you in the face again, vacuums your emotions until you’re numb, and repeats.

Author: GRETCHEN REYNOLDS - Publish Date: March 19, 2019 at 07:00AM Broken-heart syndrome, a serious medical condition, may begin in the brain.

Author: MARGARET RENKL - Publish Date: February 4, 2019 at 07:00AM It’s hard to know what to say to people in mourning. Say something anyway.