griever

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"If an individual griever wishes to use digital remains to remember their loved one, that is their grief, and we should not question or criticise other people's needs and preferences in mourning," she added.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

I did exactly that, because I’m a good listener, and because Delaney’s urge to have the world around him gain fluency in his pain is familiar to any griever.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

Our House Grief Support Center: Grief support groups are specific to the age of the griever, length of time since the death and the relationship to the person who died.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022

Eileen Myles is still becoming, as a poet, as a griever, as a lover, as an American, as a body both capable and deserving of desire and pleasure.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018

He once was fat, but now, indeed, He’s thin as any griever; He died,—the Doctors all agreed, Of a most burning fever.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various