Articles of interest - grief and loss

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Grandparents' Grief: Who Is Listening?
By Mary Lou Reed
From the Association for Death Education and Counseling

"If a grandparent/grandchild relationship is shattered by death, grandparents lose more than a cherished grandchild—they suffer a dual loss—simultaneously needing to mourn the death of their grandchild, while also grieving for their adult child’s suffering. A grandchild’s death seems perverse, absurd and totally unnatural; it defies the natural order. Grandparents expect to predecease their children, and certainly, their grandchildren. But, who is listening?"

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Last Acts
A project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Companion site to the media project. Includes the report "Means to a Better End."