If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Meghan O'RourkeMany grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
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