Doylestown family's emails show a ‘sucker punch’ COVID-19 tragedy unfolding in real time
Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.
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Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.
JENNIFER PIGNOLET Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink
Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.
PATRICIA PEARSON The Walrus Oct 2020 15min Permalink
How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.
H.G. Watson Vice Jul 2020 10min Permalink
My mother’s eyes traced what was happening with happiness of a child. When she asked my father how it was possible, he thought she was asking about the flowers, but she wasn’t. She was asking how it was possible to see this much beauty at once.
Danuta Hinc Popula Jun 2020 10min Permalink
On long-distance grief.
Lauren Collins New Yorker May 2020 15min Permalink
Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Feb 2020 20min Permalink
The view of a life from cruising altitude.
Mark Sundeen Outside Oct 2019 25min Permalink
The writer investigates her brother’s death, their complicated relationship, and the disturbing mysteries he left behind.
Prachi Gupta Jezebel Sep 2019 30min Permalink
In the normal universe, "to be" is annihilated by "not to be." But for reasons that are still a mystery to even the deepest math of physics, a bit of matter in a billion or so is not obliterated, it has no antimatter partner. It becomes a drop of experience.
Charles Mudede The Stranger Sep 2019 15min Permalink
A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.
Zach Baron GQ Jun 2019 40min Permalink
For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.
Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Jun 2019 25min Permalink
You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?
Jayson Greene Vulture Apr 2019 25min Permalink
On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
Michael Paterniti Esquire Jun 2009 30min Permalink
Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.
Matthew Bremner Men’s Journal Nov 2018 15min Permalink
When loved ones die, what do we do with the digital reminders they’ve left behind?
Luke O'Neil Boston Magazine Jun 2018 10min Permalink
Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of the grieving musician, who lost his teenage son 18 months ago.
Chris Heath GQ Apr 2017 25min Permalink
What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Apr 2017 30min Permalink
A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.
Jayson Greene Pitchfork Mar 2017 20min Permalink
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence.
Casey Newton The Verge Oct 2016 20min Permalink
An essay on the silent, secret grief of miscarriage.
Alexandra Kimball The Globe and Mail Dec 2015 25min Permalink
Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs Medium Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.
Steve Oney Los Angeles Jun 2007 50min Permalink
An aging man, a dead wife, a peculiar dog.
Once more at five o'clock, just before five o'clock, the dog engaged in its unaccountable behavior. And then, the next day, again. And the day after that, again. And still he had gotten not an inch closer to understanding why. Would he ever? Perhaps a sound so high-pitched he couldn't hear it. Something shifting in the clock maybe as it prepared to chime the hour. Or the dog was somehow seeing something that wasn't actually there. Or maybe he was simply watching the dog go mad.
Brian Evenson The Collagist Aug 2013 15min Permalink
Eleven months after Sandy Hook, Newtown’s mourning remains incalculable, especially that of the parents who lost their children. And the influx of sympathy—and money—has sometimes made the grieving more difficult rather than less.
Lisa Miller New York Nov 2013 25min Permalink