grief
"The room blurred, and when I raised my head... gravity took the tears from my eyes and pulled them down my cheeks."
"As I willed my baby to hold on, my sister was being prepared for autopsy in the morgue; birth and death, joy and grief, the beginning and end of life."
“It’s a precious gift to know that my baby’s still alive,” Denise Bargo said during the emotional meeting.
"The new assignment was to mourn the loss of a parent and the loss of myself as a daughter. ... Who was I without my parents?"
"I could have walked away when Steve told me he was mostly interested in men, but I didn't. I felt something beautiful and true blossoming, and I stayed."
"For the first time since my dear friend had died five years earlier, she’d written back."
"During those early months after my 24-year-old son, Eric, passed away in a car accident, I cried each night when I went to bed."
"When I began to read them, I found that she was not stoic. She had plenty of painful thoughts that she’d never said out loud."
"Had I been irresponsible for extolling the joy of pets when their loss is so devastating?"
Mental health experts weigh in on this common impulse to find out the cause of death.