About Thomas Attig
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Thomas Attig is the author of The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love and How We Grieve: Relearning the World, both with Oxford. He has written numerous articles and reviews on grief and loss, care of the dying, suicide intervention, death education, expert witnessing in wrongful death cases, the ethics of interactions with the dying, and the nature of applied philosophy. For details on these other writings, and on his speaking services, contact him at his homepage.
Thomas Attig's Articles
Don’t Go It Alone After Loss of Husband
Jackie writes in: I just lost my husband of 25 years to liver cancer, October 2008, lived for 6 months after he was diagnosed. I cry day and night because I miss him so much. …
Saying Goodbye to Dad
By Thomas Attig
I remember my last visit before Dad died in 1969. Mom called me at graduate school to tell me that he was quite ill (he’d suffered a stroke four years earlier) and had …
Ten Ways to Comfort the Grieving Heart
Prostate Cancer, Research Funding, and Male Vanity
Remembering ‘My Sister and My Best Friend’
My Daughter Was My Hero
Crying With My Ancestors
March 11 Topic: Grief Experienced
