How Grief Is An Out Of Body Experience

Grief is pain felt in other bodies

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4 min readJan 4

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Carl Moon, Drying Corn, ca. 1937–1943

Death is both our loneliest moment and when we’re the least alone. At that moment, our feelings fly out of our body and into our loved ones. Grief is pain felt in other bodies. Grief is pain at a higher level of existence, at the family, at the community, at the whole. A man cannot know his own death, but his clan surely does. We feel for…

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