I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'RourkeMany 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.
Meghan O'RourkeGrief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
Meghan O'Rourke'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'RourkeWe have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.
Meghan O'RourkeI think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'Rourke