Beautiful Something Left Behind

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In New Jersey, the Good Grief community focuses on a holistic way of dealing with grief, where children can give in to rage in the volcano room,’ and say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in the hospital room.’ Over the course of a year, we follow the weekly meetings and get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan, and Mikayla and their close companion: grief. It is sometimes heartbreaking, but also humorous, to experience the questions about life and death through their open and curious minds. Grief is high and heavy as a mountain, but it helps you understand what has happened, and that death is irreversible.

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