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love with nowhere left to go, looking for a forwarding address.
means The painful process of mourning and coming to terms with a loss, especially the death of someone you love.
from From Old French 'grever' (to burden, afflict), itself from Latin 'gravare' — to weigh down, make heavy — built on 'gravis,' meaning heavy. The same Latin weight presses on 'gravity' and 'grave.' Grief is literally heaviness: the sense that loss has added mass to the world, and you must now carry it.
- five stages
- a myth — grief refuses to walk in order
- broken heart
- real cardiac syndrome, named after Japanese octopus traps
- no clock
- there is no correct duration, despite everyone's opinion
- shared trait
- elephants and orcas visit and mourn their dead
- hunger pang
- loss can trigger genuine, gnawing physical appetite
for instance
elizabeth kubler-ross stages — psychiatrist's 1969 model of grief phases: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
shiva jewish mourning — seven-day ritual where families sit together in their home after a death