Meghan O'Rourke on Grief for The New Yorker

Meghan O’Rourke writes an essay for The New Yorker on grief, asking, “Is there a better way to be bereaved?” O’Rourke discusses the shortcomings of the five stages of grieving in Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ seminal On Death and Dying, and questions the disappearance of public mourning rituals in the West. This essay is part of O’Rourke’s memoir, The Long Goodbye, which will be published by Riverhead in 2011.