05/06/2026
I remember when I first processed that fact. It was at a Compassionate Friends conference in 2014. A bereaved mom was speaking about the isolation of losing a child. She described years of feeling as though no one understood her grief, calling it a death “out of order.” She lived in a fog of “why me.”
The incredible progress of modern medicine means we’ve lost the foundational understanding that life is loss. Is that a good thing?
