Speaking Grief

"We are all human and we have to help each other, understand each other, and try to make sense of life."

"It just replays in the back of my mind, like, 'Hey, if I didn’t moved out I could have saved her.'"

“Grief isn’t just related to death or the loss of a loved one. It can be loss of independence, loss of a connection, loss of a relationship.”

The type of care they give is intimate—bathing, hand-holding, talking for hours, praying, painting nails, back rubs. The relationship can become close, but then, a few weeks or months later, the resident dies.

"I will need to incorporate my feelings of sadness and loss in my life moving forward, and that’s okay."

In the U.S., cremation has outpaced burials since 2015, and the gap continues to widen.

"It’s just you want some sort of closure already because, even now, I feel like we’ve been mean or something to dad."

"In times of loss, people naturally, instinctively, gather to comfort each other and share the pain of loss and the reality of loss."