My Loss

Why I Love IKEA

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Shopping there is my wildly commercialized way of keeping my Swedish grandmother’s legacy alive. (Plus, family recipes for Swedish ginger snaps and coffee cake.)

Experience Camps Modern Loss

5 Ways Grieving Kids Changed My Own Relationship with Loss

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As a volunteer counselor for Experience Camps, I was tasked with helping kids to address their grief; yet it's the kids who ended up helping me to do the same.

Missing the Goodbye

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

This Funeral Changed How I Feel About Weddings

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Many clergy will admit they would rather perform a funeral than a wedding. I used to be one of them.

Desperately Seeking the Funeral Director With a Matinee Idol Name

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Four years after my grandmother’s death, I was determined to track down — and thank — the mortuary staffer whose kindness (and name) I will never forget.

Rebecca Odes for Modern Loss

DNA and Middle C

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My son's resemblance to my father was always striking. But after my dad died, it took on new meaning.

Everything I Didn’t Want to Know About Miscarriages*

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My bold foray into documenting my loss in full color.

Father's Day listicle

Random Acts of Dadness

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From rejecting perfectly good restaurant food to donating to worthy causes, I'm spending the first Father's Day after my dad's death trying to emulate his character.

My Father Is My Grief Mentor

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Dad raised me on his own after Mom died. So when I, too, lost my spouse young, he showed me how to find happiness again.

Meet the Widex

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Eight years after we divorced, my sons’ father was dead — and I went from the ex to something more complicated.

What My Dad’s Suicide Taught Me About Resilience  

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A wellness coach offers practical advice for finding your center amid complicated grief.

‘I Have Some Very Bad News’

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Tasked with making and fielding calls to let people know Dad had died felt like collateral damage.

That Would Have Been a Great Story

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My high school boyfriend and I lost our respective spouses just months apart — and reconnected over our grief. I would like to be able to say that we fell back in love and lived happily ever after. Something else unfolded.

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Don’t Call Sheryl Sandberg a Widow

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Modern Loss speaks with the Facebook COO about micro-stepping her way through grief, 'Option B,' and how she approaches those painful trigger holidays.

Courtney Maum Modern Loss

A Miscarriage Saved My Marriage

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I didn’t wish for this loss. But it happened, and brought uncommon gifts.

Operation Orchid

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Grandpa was totally dead. In his honor, I decided to bring my mostly dead orchids back to life.

My Father’s Death Reminded Me I Married a Good Man

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My dad, on the other hand, was a cherished friend and a terrible husband.

Bring Soup, Not Salad

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And other rules for feeding mourners from a pair of foodies who’ve been there.

‘Grief Is Something You Live in and Then Eventually It Lives in You’

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Writer Ariel Levy on her son's birth, death and what she considers grief's most valuable lesson.

Losing My Son’s ‘First Mommy’

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When the troubled woman who gave birth to my little boy died at age 31, I realized just how much I’d been riding on her imagined recovery.

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