'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.