According to Lockett, more Black families are honoring loved ones through cremation or celebration-of-life ceremonies rather ...

Dear Eric: I have a friend I’ll call “Sally.” She is in her mid-50s and is single with no kids. Both of her parents are deceased. Prior to her mother’s death, she quit her job to care for her. Once ...

When one man’s wife began spending nearly all her time comforting her best friend, he found himself carrying the whole ...

If you know a grieving family that's experienced a loss, your heart is probably breaking for them. For all the wishes in the world, there’s nothing you can do to take their pain away. But when a ...

Grief is overwhelming at any time in life, but it often becomes the heaviest during student years, with already demanding routines and emotions running high. If a friend lost a dear one, you may ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: One of my good friends has retreated completely. Last year her best friend passed away, and I think that loss is taking a major toll on her. At first, she was holding up all right, but ...

Had my daughter lived she would’ve just celebrated her 25th birthday. She died of a vicious form of cancer just days before her first birthday. She was our only child at the time. Twenty-four years ...

Very few of us escape situations that will bring us grief: sickness and death of family, friends, and co-workers cause us to grieve, i.e., to express our sadness over our loss. Grief has many ...

It can be hard to be around friends who always want to complain and claim their life is horrible when you have enough of your own tough issues to deal with. One woman’s friendship is drowning in ...

Grieving an online friend can feel illegitimate due to the absence of conventional mourning rituals, yet the grief is genuine and valid. Losing an online friend to cancer reminded me that grief is ...