Jennifer Muldowney Jennifer Muldowney

Grief in Unexpected Places: What Airports Teach Us About Love and Loss.

Maybe it's because I travel so much, or perhaps it's because my work has made me a little more curious about people and the things going on in their lives that we know absolutely nothing about.

I love people-watching in airports. You can learn an awful lot just sitting with a coffee and observing the world go by. Of course, you…..

We grieve because we love.

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Jennifer Muldowney Jennifer Muldowney

What I Learned About Grief in a Room Full of People Who Study It

More than 400 researchers, psychologists, healthcare professionals and academics gathered to talk about grief, loss and bereavement. The conference itself was intentionally international — delegates were expected from around 35 countries — and its aim was to bring research, practice and policy together.

I went as someone who works at another point on that same continuum: funerals, memorials and celebrancy.

We still have a tendency to decide who is entitled to grieve.

Who gets to be a griever?

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