Teens Volunteer to Serve Those Who Die Alone

In January of 2016 NPR reported on a man named Mike Pojman, the assistant headmaster and senior adviser of Roxbury Latin Boys' School. Pojman was inspired ...

A Coach's Eulogy for His Wife

In mid-February (2016), Monty Williams, an Assistant Coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder pro basketball team, stood at his wife's funeral to give ...

Secular Writer Describes Her Grief

In her book The Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion tries to make sense of her world after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion ...

Nick Nolte Reflects on His Own Funeral

In a recent (2015) interview in GQ magazine, actor Nick Nolte shares that growing older has been a painful experience. When asked "When was the last time ...

Life-sized Dolls Illustrate Grief and Loss

We've all experienced the loss of loved ones. Family, friends, neighbors, valuable members of our community taken by death, or perhaps simply having ...

Man Saddened that Friends Can't Share His Grief

The British novelist Julian Barnes tried to capture the loneliness of what he calls "grief-work." After thirty years of marriage, his wife Pat died from ...

A Giant Redwood Falls

On March 24, 1991, one of the oldest and largest Redwoods in California crashed to the ground.

People call the tree the Dyerville Giant, and it lies where ...

Contest Tries to Name Funeral Home Café

A South Carolina funeral home is planning to open what it calls a "Coffee Corner." It will be stocked with Starbucks coffee and offer WiFi as well as ...

Father Explains Death to His Son

In the fall of 1991, a car driven by a drunk driver jumped its lane and smashed headfirst into a minivan driven by Jerry Sittser. Sittser and three of ...

Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"

We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the ...