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‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Margaret Mead

Grief, Trying, Married

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

Margaret Mead

Beautiful, Grief, Loss

Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”