Sorry For Your Loss: What working with the dead taught me about life

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One by one, stepping over people, hushing apologies, shushing their children, waving proudly at Pup as they took their seats, was the entire population of Flanland. The author pens down her experiences and the way of working at a mortuary in the hospital she works in. She learns about friendships and readers learn a lot about Jewish funeral practices which may be uninteresting to some but were very interesting to me. It felt strangely grown up to take my dutiful place among the comforters sitting with the mourners and bringing them food.

Whether you need a shoulder to learn on or a friend to cry with, or even to get angry and yell, I am here for you. When we clapped for the NHS we didn’t think about Kate and her team, after all who thinks about mortuaries at all unless they are forced to, but this book has integrated them (in my mind) into the grand machine that is the NHS: a cog no smaller and less significant than nurses, doctors or any of the other health service staff. You want to offer comfort and support, but not say something that will further sadden the recipient. The examples below will give you ideas of what to say at a funeral or how to talk to friends, family and colleagues who are dealing with the grief of loss. In addition to tackling subjects like what to say to those who’ve had a loved one die and how to start moving forward afterward, the book’s chapters touch on everything from the nuances of hospice care to larger climate anxiety and beyond.What is truly tragic about what happened to him, is that it is happening to so many others in the world. SORRY FOR YOUR LOSSis a heartwarming, honest, respectful, and sometimes wry look at the inner workings of a Jewish funeral home through the lens of a tween who simply sees it as the family business. Plus, you get to learn about a little bit about how Jewish funerals are different from Christian ones.

Meet Mary:Her baby girl has been lost in the 15th week of pregnancy, Mary’s last chance to have a child. Over the past half-decade, journalist Dina Gachman went through the unthinkable: She not only lost her mother to cancer in 2018 but then lost her sister to alcoholism in 2021.Caring for the dead is often referred to as “Chessed Shel Emet”, the only true good dead one can do in this life, because it comes without ulterior motives. When a friend loses someone dear to them it can be awkward to find the words to comfort and offer support. Sorry for Your Loss is a humorous and emotional look at grief, but also the unescapable fate of death. When you see someone you love die, you realize we have no control over this; part of the reason we avoid it so much is that the emotions are so big, and the unknown is so daunting, that it’s just a scary thing to bring up. I found it to be extremely interesting reading the details that the author provided about what happens to our bodies after we die.