I've spent a lot of time with Dany, and he is just terribly distraught and consumed by grief.
"What does this say about us -- other than we're terribly uncomfortable with death, with grief, with mourning, with loss -- or we're so self-absorbed that we easily forget the profound suffering the loss of a child creates in the shattered parents and remaining children".
Grief can be a terribly painful and prolonged experience.
During the days that followed, Katerina Vasilievna felt very unhappy in Lobskaya Hill; she missed her husband terribly and often wept, hiding her grief from her parents-in-law.
And if the core of his story is terribly sad a widow's inconsolable grief, a watch salesman's deep ennui, a young woman's loneliness in Paris he tells it with humane, humorous intelligence.
"Ordinary people have suffered terribly from journalists who recklessly intruded into private grief and stole private information".
I imagine it was terribly hard on the friendship; Didion's version of grief a sudden imposition on the actor when she was struggling with her own.
A beneficiary whose benefactor sacrifices terribly in conferring her benefit on him should probably feel grief or sadness, rather than joy or pleasure, insofar as he is grateful to her; and the proper response to a benefit from a benefactor one finds loathsome need not amount to affection.
If you are close to your father but have only a glancing relationship with your mother, your mother's death may not be terribly disruptive; by the same token, a fraught relationship can lead to an acute grief reaction.
This isn't terribly attractive and huge crowds aren't attracted to words like- death, hospice, cancer, grief.
