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Topic: Mourning

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

Why do we pathologize and "cure" grief?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rose Petal Floating in water for Scattered Ashes Funeral Ceremony (Salon/Getty Images/WeeranuchL)

Antyesti in Brooklyn, for my father

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Rose Petal Floating in water for Scattered Ashes Funeral Ceremony (Getty Images/WeeranuchL)

Antyesti in Brooklyn, for my father

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
"No Happy Endings: A Memoir" by Nora McInerny Purmort (Dey Street Books/Brandon Werth)

Nora McInerny on life in "Trauma Town"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Amber Tamblyn (AP/Christopher Smith)

Drunk, violent, grieving

Alexandra Clinton
Prince; David Bowie (AP/Star Tribune/Bob Child)

When death is a trending topic

Julia Cooper

The language of grief

Lorraine Berry

Kirsten West Savali - DAME
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(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Laura Hobgood-Oster
(AP/Richard Lewis)

Roxane Gay
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-557311p1.html'>Oliver Sved</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My very un-American Halloween

Lorraine Berry

Facebook is the new graveyard

Jill Filipovic
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Sandy Hook mother speaks

Natasha Lennard
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