Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.

We 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.

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

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.