Our friend group is split because half of us think Sarah's family should have seen her overdose coming and the other half are angry at that judgment, and we can't figure out how to be together when some of us are grieving a 'preventable' death while others are grieving a terrible shock. Every gathering feels like walking through a minefield.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community is fracturing under the weight of different interpretations of the same death, revealing how the perceived predictability of loss shapes both grief and blame.
“Where Are You with Sudden loss vs. expected loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.