Loss and griefEssays
Learning to grieve in a group chat
Mourning used to follow a script: the visit, the dish, the service. Now the news arrives as a notification, and families are writing new rules.
Issue №6 · Devotion · Autumn 2026
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Lise Varga covers grief, technology and the new habits families invent when old ones fall away. She was a hospice volunteer before she became a writer.
Loss and griefEssays
Mourning used to follow a script: the visit, the dish, the service. Now the news arrives as a notification, and families are writing new rules.