by Bill Chadwick I have always heard the word “closure” used by victims of crime, particularly those that involved death. During the O.J. Simpson trial, I heard it used many times by the press and by Mr. Goldman, ie., ..”we want to get some closure to what has happened.” My 21 year old son, Michael, […]
Funeral Rites of the Hindus and the Buddhists
Uday Lama As morbid as it sounds, but that life ends in death is inevitable; the question is how do we cope with such a loss? By the way, a few days ago I came across a rather morbid web site called deathclock.com. The screen is done in dark colors and interspersed with silhouette […]
Healing Through Our Strength, Knowing Our Weakness, Part 2
I was walking through the woods the other day, completely merged with the sound of the wood thrush, when suddenly my left foot twisted under me as I stepped on a root jutting out in the path. I felt it starting to twist and relieved it by taking all of my weight off that foot, thereby […]
Sadness has a bad name
One of the things that makes grief so invisible in our culture is that sadness has a bad name. People think of sadness as something that needs to be hidden, something that others shouldn’t see. It wasn’t always like this. In Chaucers time if you ate and drank “sadly” it meant you did it with […]