Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all
regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is
universal - it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the
earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we deal with
grief is changing. Increasingly, we are diagnosing grief as a medical
condition to be treated rather than embracing it as a natural part of
being human.
In this book, Svend Brinkmann gets to the heart of what it is to grieve,
arguing that the sorrow we experience after the death of a loved one is
a necessary and meaningful dimension of human existence. However
painful, it unites us all. As humans we are uniquely privileged to feel
grief. Rather than trying to escape or smother grief, we must allow
ourselves to feel and accept it as the price we pay for love.