grief

Inside the Growing Movement To Hold Space for Community Grief

April M. Short / IMI Oct 18, 2023 Beginning as a response to environmental trauma, proponents of the trend seek to bring ritual back to a culture that has growingly become "grief-illiterate." Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Kobe Bryant, His Daughter and 7 Others Die in Helicopter Crash

STEFANIE DAZIO / The Associated Press Jan 26, 2020 The sudden death at age 41 of the Lakers legend sets off an outpouring of grief; inquiry is underway at the scene near Calabasas, Calif. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Paul Manafort and the Five Stages of ‘Mueller Derangement Syndrome’

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jul 30, 2018 The former Trump campaign manager's trial could mirror the five stages of grief following personal loss and tragedy: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Grieving Father Struggles to Pay Dead Son’s Student Loans

By Marian Wang, ProPublica Jun 15, 2012 A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Foxconn Workers Threaten Suicide

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2012 Workers at a Chinese factory owned by the electronics manufacturer Foxconn threatened to leap from the roof of a building in Wuhan in a protest over wages and working conditions, echoing the tragedy of laborers who jumped to their deaths for similar reasons two years earlier at other company plants. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Grieving for the Dear Leader

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2011 Since North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's death last weekend, images of his countrymen grieving en masse have passed through the country's ironclad borders to the outside world, provoking a range of reactions -- incredulity and puzzlement among them. So what's the story behind the weeping and gnashing of teeth? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Phuck Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 1, 2011 His name was Sam, no last name, and he wore no pants. He was lying on my little brother’s bed in a filthy orange T-shirt staring up at the ceiling, knees slightly bent, with blue eyes and curly blond hair and small pink lips that were frozen in a strange suckling of the air.My mother was the first dead person I’d ever seen up close. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

New York Theater Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

Eunice Wong / Truthdig May 30, 2007 In her first Truthdig theater review, actor and writer Eunice Wong takes in director David Hare's stage production of "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion's haunting memoir about the sudden death of her husband (she would also later lose her daughter) and the heartbreaking mind tricks she used to try to conjure him back. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

New York Theater Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

Eunice Wong / Truthdig May 30, 2007 In her first Truthdig theater review, actor and writer Eunice Wong takes in director David Hare's stage production of "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion's haunting memoir about the sudden death of her husband (she would also later lose her daughter) and the heartbreaking mind tricks she used to try to conjure him back. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )