Funeral directive from a serial monogamist who never stopped looking for the one who would last Come sit in the front row, darlings. I hope you all can fit. Bring your boxed-up photos, useless house keys, sad CDs. Lay your offerings at my feet. Place your grievances on pure white paper, fold them into mourning doves or cut them into snowflakes and let a blizzard fly. I’ll keep still this […]
Archive | March, 2019
A good death | An interview with Griefwalker Stephen Jenkinson
With a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a master’s in social work from the University of Toronto, Stephen Jenkinson was the director of counselling services in the palliative care department at a major Canadian hospital in Toronto for several years, where he encountered the deep “death phobia” and “grief illiteracy” that most of his patients and their loved ones brought to their deathbeds. This work motivated Jenkinson […]
Violet Benge | Sage
In the thickening dusk the smell of the hickory smoke lingered high and true. My mother’s cabin lay naked in the clearing. I saw it with someone else’s eyes as I tried to become myself for this final moment. The flap covering the cabin door was stiff and awkward as I pulled it back. My brother always had to dip his head to come inside, but I was a girl, […]
Lucinda Cummings | How to live through the sudden death of your beloved son
Ache. Every time an image of your son floats across your mind, feel the dark hole that opens up next to your heart. Experience the new knowledge that “heartache” is not just a metaphor, but a physical condition of the deepest kind. Recall how you carried this boy in your womb. Now you carry his absence, from your belly through your chest, and into your heart. A black void that […]
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