At one point or another, all of our lives are unfairly touched by grief. When it's our turn to deal with losing someone we love, there's nothing more painful and when someone we know is going through ...

When and how to show your sympathy in a letter Medically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhD Handwrite your condolence letter to ...

QUINCY – The clean out continues, sorting through years of “stuff” and memorabilia at home and at work, trying to thin the bounty. This time, the challenge lies in hundreds of letters and cards, from ...

Coping with loss is one thing that never gets easier, even with practice—and what’s just as difficult as experiencing loss is witnessing the grief of others. Unfortunately, as members of anyone’s ...

Expressing condolences is never a task one looks forward to, but it’s so important to show sympathy when someone in your life has lost a loved one. It can be difficult to find the right words to say ...

You need to know how to write a condolence letter, but there’s no perfect thing to say when someone dies. There are no magic just-right words that will erase another person’s pain, or change their ...

IT can be tricky to know exactly what to write when paying your respects to a friend or loved one in a book of condolence. Books of condolence can be helpful in supporting those who have lost someone ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was taught by my mother and grandmother, who practiced what they preached, that condolence letters are to be acknowledged. Their practice was to answer every condolence letter ...

Longtime 7NEWS reporter Byron Barnett passed away Sunday. He joined our newsroom in 1983 and spent 38 years covering thousands of stories New Englanders cared about. He retired in 2021. For nearly 40 ...

A makeshift shrine of flowers and condolence cards has gone up outside of the Brown University building where a gunman killed ...