Web site offers tips on dealing with grief, loss (Reading Eagle)
Yes, death is always with us, but the older we get, the more we seem to grapple with its presence. And death is never a welcome topic in our society. Pakistani PM expresses grief over loss of lives in Mumbai terror attacks (People's Daily)
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday called his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and expressed profound grief over loss of lives in the Mumbai terror attacks that left some 130 people dead, according tolocal press reports. Gilani strongly denounced the acts of terrorism in Mumbai and assured Singh his full cooperation, said the state-run APP news agency. He further said that ... State mourns loss of Brooklyn warden (The Norwich Bulletin)
BROOKLYN — Members of the state Department of Correction are mourning the loss of Brooklyn Correctional Warden Robin H. Sutherland, who died on Friday. EDITORIAL: Improving the odds (The New Straits Times)
IT'S sad enough whenever someone dies. But when someone dies suddenly through suicide, homicide, violence, disaster or accident, their death becomes tragic. It becomes even more heart-rending when it is a child who is the victim, whether that child is newborn, school-age or a young adult. The death of a child brings more profound distress and intense grief than that of any other loss to a ... Writing through loss (The Daily Iowan)
Some of the most poignant pieces of literature have come from loss and depression - the poems of Emily Dickinson, the works of Edgar Allen Poe. These writers knew a secret that UI rhetoric lecturer Patrick Dolan grasps, too: Writing reduces stress. Dolan leads a course based on the same principles at the Iowa City Hospice called Writing Through Loss. Community reacts to fatal crash (News 10 Now Syracuse)
Shock and grief have hit the village of Dolgeville. The close-knit community lost two neighbors in a car accident over the holiday weekend. Our Iris St. Meran has more on how everyone is dealing with the loss. Grief allows time for healing (Rutland Herald)
Today's column is published in larger type for the benefit of our senior readers. ... Sharing grief in a time of celebration Churches offer holiday support to the bereaved (The Times-News)
For Kimberly Kasimatis, the loss of her best friend three years ago didn't mean an empty seat at the Thanksgiving table or an unopened gift under the Christmas tree. Instead, the holidays were simply a time of heightened awareness that someone important in her life was gone. Sausalito group's service trips help women, families in grief (Marin Independent Journal)
It was just five months after Nancy Ross lost her son, Patrick, that she traveled to Mexico to work at an orphanage with two other women whose children had died. Skylight Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary (Scoop.co.nz)
Skylight, the national charitable trust that supports children and young people who experience change, loss, trauma and grief, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.