Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2005) - ISBN: 9780743266284