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Titles of Grief Books That Taught Me Absolutely Nothing

How to Heal: This Book is Actually All About Me and How I, The Author, Did Grief, So Do With That What You Will


Your Old Self: How to Get Back to Feeling Normal Levels of Shitty


This Isn’t Okay and You’re Not Okay, and That’s Okay: A Lesson in How Trying to be Okay is Okay, Okay?


The Year of Magical Thinking, and The Next Year of Absolutely No Thinking, Because Your Psychiatrist Prescribed You Enough Antidepressants to Put Down a Horse


Finding “Alright”: How to be Ambivalent About the Fact That the Worst Possible Thing Happened, and There’s Nothing You Can Do


The Other Side of Suckiness: How Science/Religion/Art/*Insert Your Dogma Here* Can Confirm That Yes, You Are Indeed Very Fucking Sad, but You’re Actually Not Allowed to Feel That Way, So Stop It


No Words: Your Aunt/Uncle/Cousin/Roommate/Co-Worker/Etc. is Very Sorry That ___ Died, But Has No Idea What to Say to You, So They Bought You This Book Instead


“I’m Fine” and Other Lies We Tell: 400 Rambling Pages on How Shitty Death Is, And One Concluding Chapter on How to Maybe Find Hope, So That You Don’t Off Yourself and We Don’t Get Sued


Step by Step: Eleven Steps on How to Deal with the Seven Stages of Grief, and an Additional Five Steps to Prepare Yourself for Post-Grief, Which Comes in Sixteen Stages


The Beauty of That Which Remains: You May be an Absolute Shell of the Human Being You Once Were, but Sometimes the Shittiest Thing That Has Ever Happened to You and Your Loved Ones, the Thing That Tore Out Your Heart and Broke Your Soul, the Thing That Showed You the Most Horrible Depths of Sadness and Despair, the Thing That Made You Question the Human Condition Itself and Whether Suffering Could Ever be Worth it, Can Actually be Perceived as a Gift (if You’re Psychotic)

On Grief and Grieving: How I — Some Random With a Laptop and Free Time — Found the Meaning of Loss, Even Though the Meaning of Life has Eluded Mankind for Centuries


How to Take it Day by Day: A Vague List of Non-Chronological Advice That Will Help You Either Bury Your Trauma Deep, Deep Down, or Become the Type of Person Who Writes One of These Fucking Books


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