1. I’m Sorry You’re Suffering, from Persephone.
2. When It’s Not God’s Plan: 8 Things to Say to Grieving Nonbelievers from AlterNet
3. What To Say and Do For The Recently Bereaved at Medium, who recommends this book:
4. Joan Didion’s essay on grief
I’ve always wondered how I’ll cope when someone very close to me dies. Will my love of popular science books come in handy? I saved this quote just in case I want to read about multiverses and evolution and things at the most basic of levels, to remind myself that the universe is huge and infinite, and nothing, nothing at all, lasts for very long compared to that.
A dead creature is in every respect identical to a live one, except that the electrochemical processes that motivate it have ceased.
- from Here on Earth (by Tim Flannery)
