Making the World Safe for Sorrow

Much of bereavement literature addresses the mourner as an individual but neglects the role that a community can provide. Nor does it address the obstacles that stand in the way of supplying that support, much less provide suggestions for how to do it better. Yet the experience of the bereaved is that often their friends fall away just as they need them the most.

In Making the World Safe for Sorrow, Marg...