I Remember is a collective biography of grief and loss in the 21st century.
Please use this site to contribute your personal stories and testimonies.
A grieving resident of Otsuchi in Northern Japan placed an old telephone booth with a disconnected phone in his garden so that he could dial the number of his dead cousin. After the tsunami took the lives of 1,284 people, thousands of mourners begun to visit the phone booth to speak to their loved ones.
All the Things We Have to Mourn Now
Six experts discuss the “new faces of grief” in the age of the coronavirus pandemic in this article in The Atlantic (01/05/20). From the trauma of not being able to be by our loved ones’ sides as they die in hospital or to gather for funerals, to the more widespread anxiety caused by the loss of our plans, jobs, and sense of collective security, the article explores these new forms of loss and our need for creative solutions in the current crisis. The piece includes references and links to a variety of recent books and articles on grief and loss in minority communities, on the science of bereavement, and on ambiguous (unresolved) grief.
Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
