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Topic: grief

A woman grieving her parents (Justin Paget/Getty Images)

My parents died and left me 34 fish

Becky Robison
Elon Musk VS. Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It's time to ditch toxic social media

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Grieving Donald Trump's return

Chauncey DeVega
A woman facing a cemetery (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

What owning a cemetery taught me

Sarah Gundle
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Rose Floating In The Sea (Getty Images/Fernando Trabanco Fotografía)

Why do we pathologize and "cure" grief?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Photo of author at 3 weeks old held by their mother (Photo illustration by Salon/Randall Horton/Getty Images)

I understand my mother's tough love now

Randall Horton
Little sad girl pensive looking through the rainy window. (Getty Images/Train_Arrival)

Motherless daughters: Many, and yet one

Rae Hodge
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Lincoln Financial Field on May 12, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Lisa Lake/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Taylor Swift, grief therapist?

Molly Saint-James
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Ashley Judd speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 18, 2023 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)

Ashley Judd on mom Naomi's tragic death

Gabriella Ferrigine
Actor Matthew Perry (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

The timely lesson in losing a "Friend"

Melanie McFarland
Members of the Jewish diaspora of Edmonton gather during a candlelight vigil and community-wide Havdalah ceremony to mark the one-week anniversary of the Hamas terror attack in Israel, on October 9, 2023, in Westridge Field, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Grieving together, and also apart

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff
Freddie Mercury's crown and accompanying cloak, in fake fur, red velvet and rhinestones, made by his friend and costume designer Diana Moseley are displayed during a photocall at Sotheby's auction house for the unveiling of Freddie Mercury's entire private collection ahead of an exhibition and six dedicated sales in London, United Kingdom on August 03, 2023. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Auctioning Freddie Mercury's belongings

Lori Tucker-Sullivan
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An urn, some receipts and invoice letters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My parents died. It's a whole second job

Becky Robison
Deborah Blum holds a photo of her teen, Esther Iris, at home in Los Angeles. Blum and her husband, Warren, lost Esther Iris to suicide in 2021. When it came time to write the death notice, Deborah Blum was open and specific about the mental health struggles that led to her child’s death. (LAUREN JUSTICE FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Should we mention suicide in obituaries?

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
Woman leaning on umbrella standing on large driftwood tree trunk on beach (Getty Images/Pete Saloutos)

How to navigate loss in an era of excess

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sarah Silverman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Amid grief, Sarah Silverman made comedy

Melanie McFarland
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi in "Never Have I Ever" (Courtesy Of Netflix)

The best Never Have I Ever relationship

Xandra Harbet
A Wrinkle in Time (Disney)

Grief is a distant planet: Sci-fi & dad

Meaghan Mulholland
Nick Jonas in "The Good Half" (The Ranch Productions)

Nick Jonas "has in him a real mystery"

Gary M. Kramer
Secret Art of Human Flight (Grant Rosenmeyer)

"Flight": A pragmatic "dead wife movie"

Gary M. Kramer
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Donna Summer performs in concert in Santa Rosa on August 17, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/WireImage/Getty Images)

The Donna Summer song of my silent grief

Martha Greenwald
The author with her husband Kyle and their son Benjamin. (Photo courtesy of the author)

The power of radical forgiveness

Lindsey Rogers-Seitz
Maple Bar Donut (Getty Images/Garrett Aitken)

Notes on an afterlife, without religion

Keegan Lawler
The Prince of Wales with Prince William and Prince Harry outside Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Diana, The Princess of Wales on September 6, 1997. (Anwar Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

"Dear Edward," Harry & child grief

Nell Beram
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