By Marla Brill   During a recent trip for a relative’s wedding my daughter came to our hotel room to show my husband and I a diamond necklace that his mother had given her just minutes before. Repurposed from a family heirloom purchased during the 1940s into an elegant diamond pendant, the gift nearly brought […]

By Dena Landon   When my sister called to tell me that my grandfather had died, I wasn’t surprised. He’d broken his hip almost a year ago and been in a care facility ever since. He was 90 years old and had lived a good life. But, as I’d learned with my mother’s death, no […]

By Kristen Sturt via Considerable   The loss of a family member or friend, sad as it may be, is hardly unusual.   Around 7,500 people die each day in the United States—one person every 11.5 seconds. By your 50s and 60s, you’ve almost certainly had personal experience with death—a parent’s death, other close family […]

By Stacey Freeman   I was 13 when my father died. Although I was only a child, I had to support my mother both physically and emotionally while I grieved the loss of my father and she grieved the loss of her husband. It was immensely hard for both of us. I remember my mother […]

By Dr. Kristin Davin   “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ~Norman Cousins   Feelings of loss we experience when we lose a loved one through death are often profound and can send us into dark places. We feel stuck in a […]