Today's multicultural and spiritually non-religious Western society seems to be moving away
from notions of death and the grief caused by it, requiring its concealment to avoid disrupting …

This thesis seeks to explore how purposeful space making for grief can assist the grieving
process and enable the Western culture to embrace grief as a part of every day. This thesis …

This thesis addresses the spatial needs of people in bereavement as they return to their pre-
bereavement routines. Because the initial grieving process takes place in the home and …

This production thesis employs artistic-creative and heuristic methodologies to explore
whether or not sculpture can be used as a tool to reveal and work with unmetabolized grief …

Introduction: Thinking about dying and death is something we tend not to do, and those who
promote advance care planning for our last days, hours and minutes would like us to do …

In contemporary society, grief is a universal and multi-faceted human response to significant
personal change or loss such as the death of a loved one, separation, or divorce. This paper …

Social and economic shifts in American society have increased the number of unanticipated
deaths, resulting in an influx of individuals experiencing complicated grief—grieving outside …

Loss of human life has significant impact to those left behind. To the living, facing death is to
reflect on one's own impermanence. Grief, an intensely powerful emotion, can be debilitating …

Grieving across cultures is a participatory practice. Artists David Best and Nene Humphrey
use their bodies of work to allow for participation in alternative grieving practices. Best is …

Grief is an emotion that people have felt since the beginning of time, but in modern culture,
there is a lack of visual representation of the five stages of grief. Because grief is a highly …