mourning

Yesterday, my friend Emily Lipstein—social media editor for Gizmodo and Earther—mentioned dropping by a pop-up for…

Mere seconds after news broke of Mac Miller’s fatal overdose, ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande was bombarded with…

Okay, so I don’t want to be That Girl because our national public grief is sincere and beautiful, and Prince and his…

Caleb Logan Bratayley, 13-year-old star of a popular family YouTube channel, died of “natural causes” last week.…

“Take the holy water,” said our translator, “and pour it into the brass bowl. Repeat after me: Namo tassa bhagavato…

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has written a pretty extraordinary Facebook note about observing the first 30 days…

Before I left the house to go to the new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning…

On Tuesday, a girl I grew up with died of a rare form of cancer. She left behind two little kids, a husband, a large…

Friends. It breaks my heart to report this, but Colonel Meow has passed into the great white catnip field beyond…

When 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein was tragically killed three months ago by a driver in Park Slope, his family…

The Long Goodbye is Meghan O'Rourke's memoir about her mother's death from colorectal cancer and her own grieving…

Sadly, most of us will be called upon to attend a funeral at some point in our lives. These occasions can be pretty…