Archive for loss

Don’t Postpone Grief: Livestreaming funerals

Posted by Suzette Standring 
· Friday, March 5th, 2021 at 11:19 AM 

Grief is on pause, but it does not have to be. By necessity, funerals are sparsely attended or postponed. Currently, there are 510,777 Covid-related deaths. In 2019 a total of all deaths in the U.S. was 2,854,838. (Note: 2020 statistics are not released yet). This means millions have been unable to mourn together and to […]

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Insurrection, Grief and Shadowloss

Posted by Suzette Standring 
· Friday, March 5th, 2021 at 10:42 AM 

Feel what you feel for as long as it takes to process through it. The right word recognizes our deepest emotions. When I mourn, but my grief is not attached to a physical death, there is a word for it, “shadowloss.” The term was coined by Cole Imperi, founder of The School of American Thanatology, […]

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