Good Grief
Why we must give the dead their due… ESPECIALLY when “there’s nothing you could have done.”
6 min readNov 15, 2019
Why do we obsess over the deaths of loved ones, even (or perhaps especially) when we were powerless to prevent their deaths?
On the face of it, grief seems to be a rather useless emotion. Wouldn’t it be easier and more productive — not to mention more pleasant — if we…