by Chalee Welch | Feb 6, 2019 |
Article: “Stillbirth Causes a Grief unlike any other”Many things have changed since December 1986, including public attitudes to stillbirth, as well as the care and sensitivity shown by health care professionals to those who endure such a loss. Campaigners...
by Chalee Welch | Feb 6, 2019 |
Article: “Death is not the End: Fascinating Funeral Traditions from Around the Globe”Cultural anthropologist Kelli Swazey shares a different approach to memorializing the dead. In Tana Toraja in eastern Indonesia, funerals are raucous affairs involving the...
by Chalee Welch | Feb 6, 2019 |
Blog: “A Mother Without a Child”The loss of a child, through my journey of grief and mental...
by Chalee Welch | Feb 2, 2019 |
Blog: “Let’s Make Fun of Ourselves – Shall We?”This may not apply to every type of loss… but when we lose a partner, things change so dramatically in our day-to-day lives, we may focus on what’s wrong… what’s missing. I’m a fairly recent...
by Chalee Welch | Jan 30, 2019 |
TED Ideas: “What Doctors Don’t Learn about Death and Dying”Dying and death confront every new doctor and nurse. In this book excerpt, Atul Gawande asks: Why are we not trained to cope with...
