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My mother’s death was followed closely by the pandemic — creating this strange and still and endless space in which everyone is grieving something.

Laundry, Before and After

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I used to resent the endless sorting, washing and folding. Then my daughter got sick — and everything changed.

Grief-Inspired Jewelry

by Alica Forneret and Rebecca Soffer

From lapel pins to cremains jewelry, these accessories can help honor loss with something beautiful.

I Never Felt Like an Immigrant Until My Nani Died

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For immigrant families like mine, loss can mean mourning from a great distance.

Black Lives Matter. Black Grief Matters.

Black storytelling matters, too.

That Could Have Been Us

by Marjorie Brimley and Rebecca Soffer

It can be painful to see people so obviously in love when I’m breaking inside, but it’s not other young couples that make me fall apart.

‘Was She Sick?’

Depression killed my innately joyful sister. When people ask how she died, this is how I respond.

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‘Call It Grief and Then See if it Changes How You View it’ by Nishta J. Mehra Grief can have a clarifying effect, a way of lasering away the mundane. Here's how you can apply some lessons from loss to this year's surreal new world.
How I’m Creating the Grief Vocabulary My Language Doesn’t Have by Babet te Winkel The Dutch wish each other strength to move through tough times. But in loss, we need different words of support.
Dad-Die Issues by Yassir Lester Death brings up so many feelings and conversations. Plans to be made. Legacies to cement. I had none of that.
Are You My Papi? by Mathew Rodriguez As a young man, I lost my father to AIDS-related illness. Now I search for echoes of him in the men I choose to love.
My Instagram Therapy by Domenique Osborne With @textsforjohn, I can still walk through the world looking for things to share with my brother — even though he’s no longer here.
When My Husband Died, Facebook Became My Boyfriend by Lauren Jones Some people see social media as a trigger during times of great suffering. But after my husband died, it helped me stay afloat amid my grief.
Saving the Date for a Wedding That Will Never Take Place by Gabrielle Brazeau and Rebecca Soffer I was supposed to be married on November 9, but tragedy stopped this self-proclaimed ‘Bridezilla’ in her tracks.

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