Grief and the Comfort of Strangers
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Grief and the Comfort of Strangers

When my brother died in a car accident, I couldn’t bear to be around friends and family. My only relief was talking to a complete stranger, a person I’d never met and didn’t know.
Grief in the Age of Social Media
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Grief in the Age of Social Media

Modern grief, the kind that lives on the internet, is a whole world away from old-world grief, the kind you preserved inside of you. The modern take on grieving is to share and tweet about it.
Big Little Lies and the Truth About Women’s Grief
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Big Little Lies and the Truth About Women’s Grief

If season one of Big Little Lies was all about shattering the them-not-us illusion of what a victim of domestic violence looks like, season two tried to capture the hypnotic nature of grief. Poorly written they might be, but between them, Mary Louise and the Monterey Five perfectly encapsulate the messiness of mourning.