grief

Ending my pregnancy, and saying goodbye to the son I was already in love with, is the hardest thing I've ever done.

The author of 'The Saturday Night Widows' on why we need to update our ideas of grief.

Emily Post's wisdom in her 1922 book of etiquette still rings true today, as discoverd by author Joan Didion who, in one year, lost her husband then her only child

The loss of someone close is an excruciating experience. But can it actually kill you? According to a recent study, reported by Eleanor Bradford over at the BBC -- "Bereaved parents die of 'broken heart'" -- parents who lose a baby are themselves four times more likely to die in the decade following the child's death.

When it comes to bouncing back from the losses in our lives, it turns out one size doesn’t fit all. Here's how we've learned to rethink mourning