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Bereavement

July 2024

  • Daisy Buchanan sitting on the beach in a red dress

    ‘I felt I had no right to grieve’: what happens if your sorrow doesn’t seem appropriate?

    When the author Daisy Buchanan lost a series of friends, she felt bereft – yet also that her feelings were misplaced. Here, she explores the notion of ‘disenfranchised grief’ – and learns how to let her sorrow in
  • Sarah Gristwood.

    ‘Who am I without him?’: what I learned about grief from reading other women’s diaries

    After her husband, the Guardian film critic Derek Malcolm, died last year, Sarah Gristwood felt lost and adrift. Then she found solace and solidarity in other women’s reflections on bereavement
  • Lisa Wright leaning against a tree looking pensive

    Self and wellbeing
    I was alone in my grief when my parents died – but missing them gave me the answer

    As an only child, when my mum and dad both died within three months of each other, the walls of my reality crumbled – suddenly, I was an adult orphan

June 2024

  • The ‘knife-edge’ business of digital recreation in Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

  • Illustration of two girls standing with their backs to us, one is touching the other's back and light and sparkles are coming out.

    12 little acts of kindness: what friends and strangers did for each other in their hour of need

  • A leatherback turtle, the largest of all sea turtles.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I dived into the shadows of a shipwreck – and saw the 5ft turtle that altered everything

  • Vintage watch on a brown leather wallet. Classic Wristwatch.

    There is solace in marking time passing

  • ‘Reality hit: I was about to give birth to a dead man’s child’: I became a widow and single mother aged 26

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    The principle of assisted dying – and the practice

  • My dad has died but his watch ticks on. Why does that feel so heartless?

    Adrian Chiles

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘We wouldn’t let animals die in misery. Why should humans?’: Susan Hampshire on why dying must be a choice

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘After I spoke publicly about it, one woman told me I was in a death cult’: Jonathan Dimbleby on assisted dying

  • Self and wellbeing
    When our young son died, we decided to build him a boat

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘The flight to Zurich sounds like the worst mini-break possible’: Julian Barnes on why Britain must legalise assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘While I am healthy now, I’d like to have a little lethal concoction waiting for the right moment’: Prue Leith on the right to die

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘I will probably not be given the chance to die in my favourite place’: Esther Rantzen on the right to choose a good death

  • It’s your funeral! How to plan ahead for the best party you’ll never attend

  • ‘I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?

  • The big idea
    The big idea: why we need to put death on the curriculum

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