Resources

No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...

It has been four years since his wife died. On a glass table in their home, there are two framed photographs of her: one taken when she was a young woman, the other when she had matured into middle ag...

Housewife K.G. Lim, 61, was devastated when her husband passed away after a heart attack in 2005. When she learnt that he died intestate, Lim felt her world had crumbled. “As I tried to make sens...

With a strong support system, the grieving can learn to live again. ESTHER would have turned eight this year. It is not hard to imagine her, pretty as a princess, in a pink ballet costume, with her...

FUNERALS are not a good topic at a birthday party. But as it turned out, it was the subject of one of the most deeply affecting conversations I’ve had in a long time. It was also entirely appropr...

A look at the rituals and rites of different communities as they prepare to send off family members who have passed on. And even in death, there is no forgetting our loved ones as seen in the annual Q...

IT IS perfectly normal to grieve – not just the loss of a loved one, but also the loss of a relationship, object of value or health. “Grief is a normal response and it’s a process, not an eve...