Jackson Rainer was a psychology professor for 25 years, researching grief and bereavement. All the while, he struggled with his wife’s genetic cancer syndrome which caused many presentations of cancer over their course of their marriage. Then she died. Rainer recalls the process and benchmarks of the grieving process, through the not often mentioned grieving of the second year.

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In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
After the loss of her brother in her youth and 20 years working in a hospice, Eve Joseph writes lyrical essays on death, dying and…