Grieving two deaths, grateful for two lives

For the most part this article is a personal tribute, but I loved these passages...

From Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s book “On Death and Dying,” many of us first learned about the so-called five stages of grief: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But I prefer writer William Faulkner’s simpler dictum: “Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“Even healing hurts,” notes poet Kevin Young. It is a palliative pain, keeping a lost loved one alive in the life-breath of memory.

From Grieving two deaths, grateful for two lives