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,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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....
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