Preface
Introduction: The Grief That Time Forgot
Allan Kellehear

LOVERS

Chapter 1: Dynamite Jean
Marie Gordon

Chapter 2: Angie
Denis Williams

Chapter 3: An Alien Place
Jacqueline Kinsey Bambery

CHILDREN

Chapter 4: Darling Little Frankie
Erica Kurec

Chapter 5: Forever
Carolyn Foot

Chapter 6: How Life Changes
Melissa Ryan

PARENTS

Chapter 7: Remembering Pater
Allan Kellehear

Chapter 8: The Language of the Dead
Mary Fraser

Chapter 9: The Road to Nowhere
James Carman

Chapter 10: Hallowed Ground
Neville Millen

Chapter 11: A Good Death
Raffi Ghazarian

COMMUNITY

Chapter 12: Being Dead is Being Something
David Edler

Chapter 13: A Shopping Bag from Harrods
Michael Hurley

SIBLINGS

Chapter 14: 'Pockets'
Sarah McKenzie

Chapter 15: My Baby Sister Isobell
Matthew Pearce

Chapter 16: It's So Unfare
Cheryl-Lee M Charles

Chapter 17: The Mean of Paul
Megan Denby

Chapter 18: My Brother
Timothy Baxter

PATIENTS

Chapter 19: The Butter Dish
Sally Greenaway

Chapter 20: She Smiles
Susan Sawyer

Chapter 21: Ron's Story
Robert Benson

FRIENDS

Chapter 22: So Much Unfinished
Tony Magri

Chapter 23: The Eulogy
Ian Anderson

AND MORE FRIENDS

Chapter 24: Letter to Lucy
Eithne Mills

Chapter 26: Pepi
Jeanne Daly

PARTING WORDS

Chapter 26: Grief: A Part of Life
Julie Edwards

Acknowledgments