Grief is a form of love.  Grief is not a bad thing; it is a good thing.  It is normal and natural.

Everything ends. Death is a common experience to all living beings.  It comes to individuals and to their institutions.  This course will seek to better understand the dynamics that awareness of death gives us.  We will learn how to grieve as well as how to grow into new life, following the life that is lost.  We will also learn how to get out of the way. What clearings emerge after a loved one is gone, or an institution dies?  What does emptiness offer?  Is death always terrible or is it sometimes wonderful or something in between?