coping with death
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How To Activate Your Support Network
Friends and family are incredibly important after a death has occurred, both for emotional support and logistical support.
How To Ask For Help After A Death
After a death, many people want to reach out and help but don’t know how.
How To Inform Family And Friends Of A Death
As soon as you can, you’ll want to reach out to family and friends to notify them of the death. You'll also want to inform people...
How To Prepare Yourself For A Funeral
It’s a good idea to spend some time preparing yourself for the funeral mentally, emotionally, and physically.
The Most Common Household Issues After A Death
There are a number of common household issues that may need to be taken care of after a death. These tasks generally depend on...
Ways To Deal With Grief
Though everyone grieves in his or her own way, there are some basic tools available to everyone that can be useful in coping with...
The Five Stages Of Grief
Grief is the natural emotional response to loss, and no loss is more profound or lasting than death.
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A Caregiver's Identity Crisis
If you've even been on the receiving end of a terminal diagnosis or watched someone struggle with a serious illness, then...
Why I Don’t Have My Father’s Name Tattooed on My Body
A few weeks after my father died, long after the funeral and shiva were over, it hit me that my dad was really gone. Since I...
How Comfort Dogs Comfort
For as long as I can remember, every night when my dad would arrive home from work and turn the handle on the apartment...
Lessons from Losing My Parents
Five lessons from guest blogger Roz Jonas
My father died, suddenly and unexpectedly, at the age of 79. He and my mother had...
JayWake: One Man’s Celebration of His Life
“You are invited to my pre-mortem wake and roast, a somewhat morbid, deeply irreverent, but joyous celebration of me. This...
George Saunders' Advice to Graduates
George Saunders, a writer best known for his excellent short stories, delivered the 2013 commencement speech at Syracuse...
My Priceless Pink Plastic Rollers
Hidden in the back of my closet is a yellowing plastic bag filled with AquaNet-crusted, faded pink, partially broken hair...
How Finally Being Cancer-Free Allowed Me to Mourn My Mother
This month marks the first anniversary of my mother’s death. Even though she’s been gone for a year, in many ways I’m just...
Coimetrophobia, or Fear of Cemeteries
Coimetrophobia is the official term for a fear of cemeteries. This word doesn’t describe those who have a mere dislike of...
The Ultimate End-of-Life Plan
Author Katy Butler’s new book, “Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death,” which chronicles her mother’s...
Parting Shots: Are Mean Obituaries and Eulogies Fair?
In a courtroom, one is compelled by law to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Does this same moral...
Death Over Dinner Gets Props on Bloomberg
Death + Dinner = Delicious. Bloomberg Media recently highlighted the “death dinners,” which recently collaborated with...
Happy BIRTHday To Me...
At my birthday dinner last night, I was reminded by my (older) friend that at 29, I should realize how I’m “getting up...
Video: Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Dying?
Our friend Kathy Kastner of BestEndings.com has put together a very down-to-earth and helpful video series dealing with...
Dying Father Has 10-Year-Old Daughter Dress Like Bride
Johnny Wells is not going to live to see his daughter grow up and get married. To replace this loss, he and his family held...
First Funeral Selfies. Now Corpse Selfies. Please Stop!
#CorpseSelfie
Tasteless, right? For those unfamiliar with what I just posted above, that’s a hashtag used on sites like...
Actress Tilda Swinton Isn't Afraid Of Death Or Vampires
Source: Michael Clayton, Warner Home Video
While promoting her new vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive actress Tilda...
Before I Die...
After she experienced the death of someone she loved, New Orleans resident Candy Chang was grieving and thinking about...
Good End of Life with Judy MacDonald Johnston
Judy MacDonald Johnston, creator of Good [End Of] Life, gave a powerful talk at the TED conference this year. It inspired us...
Remembering My Mother on My Birthday
Today we're turning our blog over to Everplans' Contributing Editor Lauren Thaler Kahn. Lauren is the founder of Punchwell...
Introducing Lauren Thaler Kahn
A Matter of Life and Death
As an only child with a single parent, I was always scared to death of losing my mother. Life...
Death Cafes
In cities across the country (and the world), curious people of all ages and backgrounds are gathering regularly to share...
My Friend's Mom is Dying...What About Me?
When someone is dealing with a significant hardship, like death or caring for someone who is dying, the natural inclination...
My Mother's Ethical Will
One of the first things my mother did when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer was contact an estate attorney. She was...
Milestones: My Loss Does Not Define My Gains
I feel the sting of my mother’s absence most acutely at the milestones. In some ways, the milestones, no matter how many...
A Laughing Matter
For a blog series called A Matter of Life and Death, I admit that I’ve probably talked a lot more about the latter. (Sorry...
A Good Death: Photos
What does a good death look like? Photographer Joshua Bright offers one answer to this question with a series of photographs...
Tylenol May Help Ease Anxiety About Death
For most humans, thinking about death is stressful. A new study now shows that acetaminophen, the primary ingredient in...
Care When There Is No Cure
Friend-of-Everplans Mark Dimor is producing a documentary that we think is both powerful and important. The film is inspired...
Regrets, I've Had a Few
About a week before my mom died, she asked me not to leave her side. She was in a hospital cot next to her actual bed at...
What Won’t You Regret On Your Deathbed?
A palliative care nurse recently wrote a list of the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed. It became really popular....