Death
The "Friends" star, 54, was found dead in his hot tub at home in October.
"Sometimes I feel pressured to confirm that he's getting better. I can't tell him that actually, he won’t."
Ida Khalil has washed more than a hundred women. “I used to be afraid of dead people,” she says. “Now I could sleep next to dead people.”
"As I willed my baby to hold on, my sister was being prepared for autopsy in the morgue; birth and death, joy and grief, the beginning and end of life."
"The new assignment was to mourn the loss of a parent and the loss of myself as a daughter. ... Who was I without my parents?"
"For the first time since my dear friend had died five years earlier, she’d written back."
"During those early months after my 24-year-old son, Eric, passed away in a car accident, I cried each night when I went to bed."
Mental health experts weigh in on this common impulse to find out the cause of death.
“Whether or not our departed loved ones are still with us, holding them as if they are can enrich our living experience.”
"Nothing prepared me for my daughter's call one afternoon. 'Ryan thinks Daddy’s dead!' she blurted when I answered."