The Treasures of Grief

Abstract

The author, a poet, novelist, and translator, is married to Janet Abrahm, MD, a faculty scholar of the Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute. Mr. Slavitt, whose mother was murdered in 1982, addressed a gathering of the Project’s faculty scholars, and offered these palliative care specialists an artist’s view of the experiences of loss and grief. The following is adapted from his remarks.