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’ … Continue reading What NOT to say to a bereaved person
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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.
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 … Continue reading She is not here
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.