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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?   

Email us your ideas about how you could contribute to the Grief Matters blog. Please see our guest bloggers guidelines.

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What is grief literacy and how does it matter?
Susan Cadell & Mary Ellen Macdonald Susan Cadell & Mary Ellen Macdonald

What is grief literacy and how does it matter?

What is grief literacy and why does it matter? Grief literacy is a concept that was born in 2018 at a gathering in London (Ontario, Canada). At that meeting, a small group of people who are part of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement imagined together how civic action could create a grief-attuned world.

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