by KimBoo York | Sep 18, 2013 | Mourning, Recommendations
I was talking to my friend David recently about funerals. He is an observant Jew who had attended an Evangelical Christian funeral, and was appalled by the fact that the music was recorded. I have to assume it was a pretty terrible choice of hymns or a cheap sound...
by KimBoo York | Aug 3, 2013 | Grief, Mourning, PSA
I often question the value of this blog. After all, while grief is a permanent state its intensity varies over time and circumstances. I’m not sure, either, what I have to offer is very much by way of comfort. I don’t coat grief with a film of sentiment,...
by KimBoo York | Feb 19, 2013 | Grief, Mourning
I don’t think it is true that grief “steals our happiness.” Grief is not a thief; if we want to get all literary we could say that “Death is a thief” but grief? No, grief steals nothing from us. It simply settles over our bones like a...
by KimBoo York | Feb 12, 2013 | Atheism, Grief, Mourning
This post is not about grief, but it is something that has been on my mind for a while now. I want to talk about my perspective in writing this blog, and where it comes from, and why it’s different from most skeptic’s blogs out there, and how (maybe) that...
by KimBoo York | Jan 29, 2013 | Mourning
“So why do we prepare ourselves for birth and death so differently? Largely because birth is good news and death is not.” This line captivated me. It’s in Planning a Funeral? Why Information Is Power at HuffPost. And it’s true, of course…but it hasn’t always been this...
by KimBoo York | Jan 3, 2013 | Grief, Mourning
I am hitting the 20 year mark for my mother’s death. In the spring of 1993, she was diagnosed with fatal colon-rectal cancer. She had already been in pain and bleeding for nearly a year. She did not go seek medical help earlier because she believed we...
