NewsBite

Grief

Advertisement
Gina Chick inherited a love of nature from her grandfather.

Gina Chick: ‘I am currently single, and it’s a weird thing for me’

The Alone Australia winner was in a relationship with a woman when she met the father of her child, much to her surprise.

  • Robyn Doreian

Latest

Sarah Wheeler during her six-month solo 5500km outback trek on horseback in the town of Nyngan, New South Wales ,

Sarah rode 5500 kilometres on horseback for her parents. This is what she learnt

After losing her mother to gastrointestinal cancer, Sarah Wheeler rode for nine months, talking to people she met along the way about grief.

  • Nick Newling
The author as a teen in the mid-1980s, when she met a 26-year-old man who seemed “amused” at their first meeting.

At 15, she thought it was a ‘regular’ relationship. Today, the word ‘grooming’ springs to mind

As a teenager, having a 26-year-old boyfriend was thrilling. Thirty-five years on, that “love” takes on a very different hue.

  • Sonia Orchard

The February 8 Edition

When your child dies overseas: one mother’s torment| Australia’s most mysterious bird | Outpacing the fitness gender gap | Curtis Stone on foodie nasties

‘Things work differently in Bali’: When Amanda’s son died, she learnt a difficult lesson

Amanda Lennon learnt via text that her son Aston had died in Indonesia. In the aftermath, she found that Australian money and connections were of little use.

  • Andrew Hornery
Ian Kemp lost his wife Vera after 37 years of marriage.

‘A uniform feeling’: The grief and loneliness of losing a spouse

According to new research, social support has little impact on the loneliness someone experiences while grieving their partner.

  • Sarah Berry
Advertisement

Three years after her husband died, Geraldine Brooks finally confronted her grief

After the novelist’s husband Tony Horwitz died, she did a good approximation of being OK. She was not OK.

  • Geraldine Brooks
Baking a cake.

Dementia has taken many of my grandma’s memories. Today, we connect through play

There are many things I will never know about my grandma. But we can still delight together in the twists and turns of her mind.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Josephine Humphreys spent many years supporting grieving families as a funeral director before her own daughter Kate Humphreys died by suicide in January 2023.

‘She was crying uncontrollably’: What not to do when consoling someone who’s grieving

Josephine lost her daughter to suicide. Ashton’s mother was murdered. Here’s what they wish people would never say to those who are grieving.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Orange objects I can’t bear to touch.

When Heather was dying, questions formed in my mind that I had never entertained

There are three immovable orange objects in my house. One is very soft, one is very comfortable, and the third is a cheap piece of plastic that no one else would give a second thought.

  • Maher Mughrabi

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/grief-1n6b