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...When parents are gone, so are the prime archivists of your life. "My father watched my first steps," says psychologist Alexander Levy, author of The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents. "He paced the floor the first time I took the car out at night." The role parents play is beyond measure--and even reason. "Even people who've murdered a parent go through this debilitating and confusing kind of loss," says Levy, who has observed interviews with young killers...
...Byock, a palliative-care physician in Missoula, Mont., and author of Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life, says intolerance is institutionalized. "What are most leave policies for loss of a parent?" he asks. "Three days? In the workplace, people expect you to grieve for a week and then get on with it." DeBerry says too many people think grief is something to move past. "Grieving comes and goes just like the waves in the ocean," he explains. "Do we ever get over missing someone we love? The goal is not to get over...
...after my father died this summer, I lost more than just my remaining parent. Four decades of childhood were also cut loose. Suddenly there were no family members to report to--or rebel against. And that's pretty scary. A new moral dilemma? A question about the stock market? A mature voice of reason? From this point on, the mirror would have to provide answers. Growing up is hard to do, especially when you're scheduled to enter middle...
...January, the Bertelsmann train was sidetracked. Middelhoff's good friend Steve Case announced that AOL was buying Time Warner (TIME's parent company), and other media megamergers left little room for the big deal that might seal a No. 1 content position for Bertelsmann. The private Bertelsmann's board has a deep-rooted aversion to debt. So Middelhoff redoubled his efforts to reorganize the company around digital content and in one stroke sold off its stake in a string of companies before the dotcom meltdown. That netted an estimated $15 billion in cash ($8 billion from AOL Europe alone...
...letter my friend received from an, uh, let's just say "eager" parent...