Tag: Grief
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What NOT to say to a bereaved person

By grief and funeral care specialist Lianna Champ. Excerpted from MailOnline. Grief counseling advice. Bereaved people don’t want to hear platitudes. What NOT to say: 1. ‘I know how you feel’ No, you don’t. This is one of the worse things you can say to a grief-stricken person. Even though we may share similar emotions, no two…
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Staying put in the death house

So be it. I stay in this house with the ghosts of my wife and my son and my two brothers. They join me at cocktail hour and we all get drunk.
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She is not here

She was here — and then she wasn’t here. She was here for thirty-four years — here and there, here being a rundown bungalow sixty miles north of Manhattan, there being the many places we lived and visited. Many times her absence spirals out of control and turns into a nightmare, and noisily flows the gin.…
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Death by broken heart
Lisa Marie died of a broken heart. The only daughter of Elvis was still grieving over her son Ben’s suicide when she died this week at 54.
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Bad mushrooms

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Grief destroyed Sharon Tate’s parents

Sharon Tate’s mother and father never recovered from the brutal murder of their daughter, as surviving daughter soldiers on.
