How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss

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August 18, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering. - Geoffrey Gorer - How We Grieve: Learning To Live With Loss John Updike wrote in his memoir, "Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?" And yet even if we were to somehow make peace with our own mortality, a primal fear rips through whenever we think about losing those we love most dearly -- a fear that metastasizes into all-consuming grief when loss does come. In The Long Goodbye, her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother's death, Meghan O'Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence. Read more... { read more } Be The Change This week remember the livingness of those you love and loved, rather than fear or grieve their loss. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World There's More to Life Than Being Happy The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Science of Love Building A Regret Free Life 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 148,483 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More