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Welcome to the Grief Matters blog. We intend for this space to provide an opportunity for the Grief Matters community to write, read, share, and reflect about ‘all things grief.’ At Grief Matters, we understand grief as the experience of loss. This loss could be a death (a human, an animal). It could also be the loss of something else: your health, a job, an opportunity, a future goal, or dream.
While grief can look and feel different to every individual, we live our grief within our social networks and in our communities. We feel that community matters deeply to the experience of grief. So, we invite you to share with us in order to help create more grief-attuned communities.
How does grief matter to you?
What grief matters are important to you?
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Visiting the exhibit, “Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery”
We wrote this blog post to share our thoughts about visiting the recent exhibit, “Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery,” at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. The exhibit is originally from the Chicago Field Museum. We both found it especially impressive to have the word ‘death’ figure so prominently: the name of the exhibit was on a giant poster on the side of the museum and was widely advertised on social media.
Photo by Stephanie Levac.
Setting the Stage for Community Grieving
Recently, my mom called me and asked if I wanted to head to Toronto to see a new musical with her. She said, “It’s about death and dying, so it’s right up our alley.” My mom knows me well and quickly added,“Oh, it uses Roy Orbison’s music.” As a musician and long-time admirer of the rock music scene from the 60s to the 80s, I could not say no.
Photo by Kyle Head
Introducing Susan MacLeod, Cartoonist-in-Residence at Grief Matters!
Recently, my drawing practice has turned to creating grief and death stories in the hope my cartooning can lessen my real fear of death, grief, and loss as I age. I’ve been drawing people in nursing homes for well over ten years now.
*Photo by CBC