Death itself is already a major taboo in the Western world. The same can be said about grief, particularly when it is not seen as such - the so-called symbolic and/or ambiguous losses. With this reality in mind, Gabriela Casellato has gathered fundamental texts to better understand the subject. Divided into four parts - "Grief in Early-life Losses ", "Grief in Losses by Non-normative Life-course Transitions", "Grief in Care Giving" and "Social Engagement: From Silence to Action" — this book also includes an afterword on the Covid-19 pandemic, which has swept the world and continues to devastate Brazil. Topics covered include: -Fraternal mourning, widowhood, and falling ill with cancer, -Grief faced by those outside of heteronormativity, -Mourning of women who fail to get pregnant, -Subjective and objective losses of immigrants, -Emotional difficulties of formal and informal caregivers and palliative care teams, -Grief of patients who lose their therapist, - Silenced grief of people in religious roles.
