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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: grief

grief stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - Denzel Washington said today he recently spent hours on the phone listening to John Travolta grieve over the death of his son, People reports. "Needless to say, he's struggling," said Washington at a press conference for their film, Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. "So more than... More »

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John Travolta • grief • seizure • Bahamas • Denzel Washington • grieving • Jett Travolta

 William Opens Up 
 on Loss of 'Mummy' 

He becomes patron of child bereavement charity

Mar 13, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prince William makes his first public acknowledgment about the grief he felt after losing his mother in a Daily Mirror essay. "Never being able to say the word 'Mummy' again in your life sounds like a small thing," he writes. "However, for many, including me, it's now... More »

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London • Prince William • Princess Diana • grief • charity • Britain • British royals • bereaved • Royal Family

Quake Grief Compounded for Single-Child Chinese Families

Loss of child is devastating for those who followed one-child policy

May 15, 08 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of parents in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province are grieving for their children today and for most, the misery is particularly heart-wrenching because they have lost their only child, reports the New York Times. China's one-child policy was strictly enforced in the poor and populous province, and the quake took... More »

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China • grief • one child policy • earthquake • Sichuan province • China earthquake

OPINION

First Film Was Minghella's Finest Work

Truly, Madly, Deeply can help fans grieve director's early passing

Mar 21, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - He might be known for his sweep of the 1996 Academy Awards with The English Patient, but director Anthony Minghella should be remembered for his first film, Dana Stevens writes in Slate. Truly, Madly, Deeply, a 1990 made-for-TV movie that's now something of a cult classic, is a "psychologically... More »

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film • grief • film director • romance • Britain • romantic comedy • movies • Anthony Minghella • Alan Rickman • Juliet Stevenson • English Patient • Truly, Madly, Deeply

Eulogy Offers Some Answers

A journalist leaves a doctor's funeral 'feeling a sense of wonder'

Dec 19, 07 2:17 PM CST
(Newser) - The questions have echoed through the ages, ever since people started dying and leaving behind loved ones able to express the sentiment: Why? Why now? Now what? Writing for the Newsweek/Washington Post website "On Faith," Sally Quinn points her readers to the extraordinary eulogy Erik Kolbell delivered last... More »

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obituary • Sally Quinn • grief • death • funeral • Amy Rosenblatt Solomon • Roger Rosenblatt • Erik Kolbell • eulogies

Docs Too Quick to Cry
Depression

Study finds almost any negative emotion seems to prompt medication

Apr 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shrinks are too quick to term patients clinically depressed, says a new study reported in the Washington Post. Researchers argue that a quarter of "acute grief reactions," the standard symptom of depression, may in fact constitute normal responses to stress; they blame the bloated psychopharmaceutical industry, in part,... More »

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medicine • health • depression • psychiatry • disease • patients • stress • mental illness • grief

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