Modern Loss- Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome. by Soffer, Rebecca -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction, by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner Collateral Damage: But Wait, There’s More?

Introduction, by Rebecca Soffer A Wake, by Anthony King The Would-Bes, by Eileen Smith The Second Third Child, by Eric Meyer There Won’t Be Blood, by Ruby Dutcher Mother Figure, by Elizabeth Percer

Things to Know Before Scattering Ashes, by Tré Miller Rodríguez Triggers: What Sets Us Off Might Surprise You

Introduction, by Gabrielle Birkner A Little to the Left, by Amanda Palmer When Mom Kan’t Keep Up with the Kardashians, by Kate Spencer Brain Games, by Chamique Holdsclaw Thanksgiving After Jack, by Anna Whiston-Donaldson The Barren Field, by Helen Chernikoff

The Dos and Don’ts of Building Your Crew Intimacy: 1 - 1 + 1 = ?

Introduction, by Rebecca Soffer Meet the Twins: Grief and Desire, by Emily Rapp Black Are You My Papi?, by Mathew Rodriguez What’s Good Enough Now, by LaNeah “Starshell” Menzies Taboo Times Two, by Alice Radosh The Promise, by Mattie J. Bekink

Introduction, by Gabrielle Birkner Four Little Words, One Big Meaning, by Michael Flamini Dad-die Issues, by Yassir Lester The Dead-Brother Code Switch, by Rachel Sklar Making Peace with My Mother’s Whiteness, by Amy Mihyang Ginther Just Say Uncle, by Michael Arceneaux

Introduction, by Rebecca Soffer Icky Pop, by Sara Faith Alterman Honey, Don’t Screw Up the Namesake, by David Sax The Accidental Archivist, by Spencer Merolla Under the House, by Julie Satow Uncle Ron, by Kim Goldman

There’s No Will. What the Bleep Do I Do Now?, by Amanda Clayman Data: Loss (and Found) In the Digital Universe

A Brief Guide to Griefspeak Secrets: What They Didn’t Tell Us, and What We Aren’t Telling Others

Introduction, by Gabrielle Birkner My Dead Husband, the Serial Adulterer, by Robyn Woodman Practice Imperfect, by Rachel M. Ward And the Oscar Goes to . . . , by Catherine Fennelly Forever Younger, by Caroline Waxler F Is for Forgiveness, by Haley Tanner

Work Life After Loss Journeys: Where We’ve Headed but Not Necessarily Ended Up

Introduction, by Rebecca Soffer My Wedding Gown’s Last Dance, by Lucy Kalanithi Where the Heart No Longer Is, by Jacqueline Murekatete Feet, Pain, Love, by Sarah Fox From a Purple Room to the Obama White House, by Marisa Renee Lee Art Imitates Loss, by Michael Greif, as told to Rebecca Soffer Patches, by Tanzila Ahmed

Shit People Say, But Really Shouldn’t Absence + Time: What Comes Later

Introduction, by Gabrielle Birkner David, by Elisa Albert Considering the Alternative, by Artis Henderson The Deathday-Birthday, by Nikki Reimer Double Digits, by Nishta J. Mehra

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