There is a gap in most people’s knowledge – experiential poverty – about how to deal with death.
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The process of grieving can happen in stages. But these stages are rarely experienced in the same way by one bereaved person and another.
Why it’s okay to use social media to mourn.
The film of Cave’s first tour since the death of his son is powerful and evocative.
Bereaved families strive to comprehend that there is nothing they could have done to prevent the death of their loved one. Viewing the crime-and-accident scene images can offer a path to healing.
Every single pregnancy matters. It is time to end preventable harm.
Millions of people are affected by death and dying – but politicians don’t want to talk about it.
Saints’ relics, locks of hair, the laying of flowers: keeping the dead close took many forms in the past. We could learn from them today.
Just ask Céline Dion – and countless others.
The boxer’s death follows hard on the heels of David Bowie and Prince. The world is losing global icons and learning how to grieve using new and democratic tools.
In fact, even a happy heart can break.
New research aims to bring hope to the often forgotten or stigmatised friends and relatives of those who die from drug or alcohol use.
When I read that Robin William’s daughter Zelda was deleting her Twitter and Instagram because of abusive messages in the aftermath of her father’s death, I recalled Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene…
The death of an infant is terrible for both parents, but for many mothers, physical reminders such as lactation, can seem incongruent when motherhood has been cut short. These women can find solace in…
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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Dean's Professor of Sociology and Professor of Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Reader of Health Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Psychology, Curtin University
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Reader in Sociology, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate and Public Scholar, Communication Studies, Concordia University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of York
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Law, UNSW
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Lecturer in Social Work, UNSW
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Lecturer in Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice, University of Staffordshire
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Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Reader in Law, University of Bristol