Category Archives: Lending Insight

Best-selling author, Kris Carr’s book, “I’m Not a Mourning Person” is a hybrid of a few genres. Part memoir, part grief guide and part self-help book, Carr explores her own experience with grief and relays the lessons she learned along … Continue reading →

“Tuesday” may be one of the most original and strangest movies ever made about death. In fact, Death is one of the co-stars, anthropomorphized as a talking, size-shifting macaw that dispatches souls with the sweep of its wing.

Ever since I accidentally stumbled across Calendar Girls, the 2003 British comedy starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, it’s been a staple in my comfort-viewing catalog. The movie manages to deftly portray how death and grief can rock a small … Continue reading →

“Cocoon,” directed by Ron Howard, is a science fiction film that makes you ponder the value of life and the importance of death. The movie centers around a group of elderly residents at a retirement home who discover a transformative … Continue reading →

Capturing the unique emotional experience of grief poses a challenge for any filmmaker. Typical movies attempting to depict grief and loss often feature a sympathetic protagonist—a mother facing her child’s terminal illness, an elderly man coping with his wife’s dementia, … Continue reading →

“The Boy and the Heron” is the most recent movie from Studio Ghibli and its legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The works of Miyazaki are known for their whimsical storylines; beautiful, hand-drawn animation; and themes of environmentalism and pacifism. “The Boy … Continue reading →