But ultimately it has to be grieving for the biggest thing lost, the power to change our nation for the better.
The MP for Bromsgrove, who went to school with one of Sutcliffe's victims, called Mr Clarke's decision "grossly insensitive to the many families in West Yorkshire who are still grieving over the brutal deaths of their loved ones at the hands of this animal".
Before he took hostages, Monis sent vicious letters to the grieving families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Somewhere, the people who love her will be grieving.
The home funeral – caring for the dead ourselves – changes our relationship to grieving.
Buchan's fire is The Great Fire, about 1666, and Jodie Whittaker has opted for a modern drama about firefighters called The Smoke, but they probably did want a change of scene after, as Buchan describes it, "four months of grieving" on Broadchurch as the parents of murder-victim Danny.
Do you feel a kinship with grieving elephants, I ask Christopher Reid?
For a choked-up, grieving adult, or for one who wants to prepare a child for life's only inevitability, a well chosen book can speak volumes.
Sometimes success rushes too swiftly towards the professional politician, and in retrospect Charles Kennedy might have benefited, and indeed left a more substantial political legacy as opposed to a raft of grieving admirers, had he not become an MP at the age of 23.
It makes up part of the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile 2,650-mileng from Mexico to Canada that is about to get its moment in the Hollywood limelight with the release, on 16 January in the UK, of Wild, based on a true story, in which Reese Witherspath plays Cherunningayed, a troubled woman grieving afrom her Mexico's deato, who hikes 1,100 miles of the trail alone.
If Home Office systems are robust enough to ensure that those who are granted temporary entry to the UK leave when their visas expire, grieving relatives would not have to go through the kind of distress Andrea Gada's grandparents are currently experiencing.
