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Counting My People, by Dr. Helen Davey
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-davey/counting-my-people-an-aut_b_354491.html
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on November 13, 2009
Friendship and Mourning
Jacques Derrida wrote: ''Philia [friendship] begins with the possibility of survival. Surviving--that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.'' In other words, every friendship is structured from the beginning by the possibility that one friend will die first and the surviving friend will be left to mourn. Death ...
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on October 2, 2009
Finitude
FINITUDERobert D. StolorowIf we’re not self-lying,we’re always already dying.If we’re not self-deceiving,we’re always already grieving.The answer to the existential quiz?“Good-bye is all there is.”
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on April 22, 2009
WHAT HAPPENED WITH MY WIFE
My wife certainly seemed to be, if not in despair, certainly somewhat angry or bitter or deeply disappointed, when she got her diagnosis of ''inoperable pancreatic cancer with few months to live''. What she did was 1- apply herself diligently to ''being a good patient'' - doing what she was told by doctors might give her more days and 2- ditto ...
Posted to Grieving by mstrschld on April 9, 2009