![]() ![]() I’ve thought a lot about death recently, the finality of it, the argument ending mid-air. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. ![]() To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. “You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. Here in this passage Jeanette Winterson talks about a person grieving and death of a loved one and how a person can feel… I say can because everyone feels and experiences grief in different ways. ![]() ![]() The Parrot Sketch is a classic example of all the euphemisms there are to describe death that we have. I don’t feel as a society we talk about death or grief enough …whether its the ‘stiff upper lip’ or it’s ‘taboo’ for whatever reason we hide ourselves away from it as a subject or talking about it or our loved ones that have passed away. I found this a profound description of how people grieve and how people react to people grieving. This passage taken from Written on the Body was read at a funeral I lead recently and I find it helps to describe grief to people and how people are feeling. ![]()
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