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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief—a clinical social worker explains
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A Colorado cemetery’s red phone booth to the dead dials up tension over what counts as a memorial
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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months afterward ...