Search
Comments
- MJ on Charity is not Optional
- Ziff on Charity is not Optional
- Ru on Charity is not Optional
- Ru on Charity is not Optional
- Course Correction on Charity is not Optional
- Janna on Charity is not Optional
- Kobie on The Two Sides of Being Single and Chaste
- Kobie on The Two Sides of Being Single and Chaste
- Diane on Charity is not Optional
- Christi on Charity is not Optional
Topics
beauty Belief body image charity children Christmas community death Doubt education Exponent II faith Family feminism Friendship Gender roles God Joseph Smith leadership love marriage mormon feminism Mormon Life Mormons and Death Mormon women motherhood mothers' day music original poem Poetry politics prayer priesthood Primary Relationships Relief Society Relief Society Lesson Relief Society Lessons spirituality temple testimony Virtual Oases women women's historyFrom the archive
Tag Archives: Mormons and Death
Mormons and Death: Childhood Pets
My sister and her family recently moved across the country, just a few days after their pet cat gave birth to four kittens. When my sister’s family arrived in their new state of residence, they stayed with a friend of … Continue reading
Posted in death, grief, parenting
Tagged animals, children, death, Mormons and Death, motherhood, pets
9 Comments
Mormons and Death: Cemeteries
by Kelly Ann It’s odd. Even though (thanks to the ongoing Mormons and Death series) I recently reiterated to my mother that I want to be an organ donor if possible and would like to be cremated when I am … Continue reading
Mormons & Death: The After-Life (In This Life)
I started writing my grandfather letters the year after he died. I was nine. Soon these yearly letters, composed in our expansive garden that he had so lovingly and obsessively cultivated, migrated from paper to prayer. I was, and remain, … Continue reading
Posted in death, Family, fatherhood, grief, hope, suffering
Tagged death, Family, fatherhood, grief, Mormons and Death
28 Comments
Mormons & Death Series: A Guide to Giving Comfort
(Angel of Grief (1894) by William Wetmore Story) Unfortunately, I am well acquainted with grief. At an early age I was told that my grandfather Brinkerhoff was dying of cancer. I was too young to know what that meant. One … Continue reading
Posted in Changes, death, Doubt, faith, Family, grief, hope, Relationships, suffering, transition, women
Tagged Mormons and Death
40 Comments
Mormons and death: Giving the gift of life
When I first signed up to write this post, I had stories to tell. Specific stories about how tragedy in one family lead to a new dawn for another. How tearful prayers on one side were answered with great blessings, … Continue reading
“I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked”
The first funeral I ever went to was my Grandma A’s. My memories of Grandma A are sparse, as I was only six when she died. What I do remember is the candy she’d bring when she came for dinner … Continue reading
Mormons and Suicide
Trigger warning: suicidal ideation and completion, sexual abuse, self-injury. Suicide is an extremely complicated, sensitive and personal topic. In searching for general information in regard to Mormons and suicide, I found the internet largely absent of LDS-specific suicide support groups or … Continue reading
Guest Post- Death of a Child
by Brittany Kunz “If you had to choose which child to give back to me, which one would you choose?” were the thoughts that came to my mind when I was putting laundry away. I went through each of my … Continue reading
Mourning Sickness: Dealing with Miscarriage
A few years back I read a book on grief that had the nerve to rank the severity of losses one might experience. Death of a spouse ranked higher than death of a parent, but lower than death of a … Continue reading
Peculiar Funerals for Peculiar People
Aimee lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and three children and is the co-editor of the Exponent II Magazine. Three weeks after my eighth birthday, I found myself dressed in a white jumpsuit listening to a talk about baptism. … Continue reading
