We each want our personal values to be honored throughout the story of our life until the very end. But dying is complicated, and that may not happen at the […]
The Facts of Life and Death: Fact One: They’re Not Separate
Death, Dying and Grief – Practically and Mystically
Kim Mooney – Boulder County’s Thanatologist-in-Residence Dying to Be Whole. Most people will not have an NDE but we can all work toward having a more present death experience that […]
Ongoing Study of Grief
Why should we turn an eye to grief as a formal study? Grief is the most universal human experience, and we live with it every day in many forms. You’ll […]
Rising From the Ashes
Today, in our country we have several obstacles to natural grieving. First, we have distanced ourselves from it enough that we don’t recognize it. Because we can’t name it easily, […]
10 things NOT to say to someone who is grieving
People often say careless or ignorant things that they hope will help people in loss, but instead they make it harder for those who are grieving to feel cared for […]
Beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her seminal book On Death and Dying. She brought into popular consciousness the model of the Five Stages of Grief, gleaned from conversations she […]
Grief in the Workplace Management Training
Employers have come to realize that in order to support and retain employees and to maintain attractive and productive work environments, it is important to appropriately address issues of grief […]