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

Partly, this has to do with Fassbender, who is never at ease with the depiction of happiness, and is therefore less than persuasive, as a griever, when it is snatched away.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2016

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