Arthur Brooks

And it was this incredible opportunity to create a means of communication where one hadn't existed, even though everybody doing it knows they weren't talking to their family member, but they were expressing something that probably they had never been able to express.

And it was an emblem of this

universal human experience it tied people all around the world when they saw this it you know crazy art installation no it was an example of the experience that we all have in life it was a humanness that was exhibited in that grief that those people felt that you have felt

that you will feel, creates a psychological or physiological disequilibrium.

It is the case in which you are supposed to be with someone or have some set of circumstances permanently.

You've accommodated yourself to a kind of a permanence with someone or something and it's taken away.

Grief is losing something or someone that you love.

We typically think about it as because our loved one's dying, but it could be

Your company goes bankrupt.

It could be being fired from your job.

These could be real sources of grief.

And it can be little or big, as a matter of fact.

It's the loss, the involuntary loss of something you cherish.

That's what grief is all about.

Now, when it comes to the death of a loved one, I mean, it's...

As normal as can be, look, 3 million people die each year in the United States alone.

One in one hundredth of the population.

And according to pretty good research, this is research in the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article called Treatment of Complicated Grief, a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Each person who dies on average leaves five people bereaved.

And that means that at any given time, 15 million Americans are experiencing fresh grief.