Sophie Gilbert: Richard E Grant on Documenting Grief

Sophie Gilbert interviewed Richard E Grant, who documented his grief following the loss of his wife:

"Why should grief be hidden, if sharing it feels cathartic? Why should people grieving spouses, parents, children do so quietly? Why is our innate response to people who are experiencing profound loss to duck and cover? “I think that it’s [people’s] fear that they’re either going to be intruding or that you’re going to fall apart like a jelly on the pavement,” Grant said. He still has, he confesses, days where he is so “poleaxed” by grief that the only thing to do is submit to it and wait for it to pass, but he also has good days, splendid days, days with happiness by the bucketload." 

Sophie Gilbert's article is available on The Atlantic.

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