What if grieving those we love isn't about letting go but finding ways to take them with us?

From Hallowe'en, All Saints, and Samhain to Mexico's Day of the Dead, discover how ancient traditions and the power of ritual can help us to honour our loved ones, and sustain our relationships with them.

When words are no longer enough, ritual can help us to lay down the burdens we no longer need to carry, and find strength to carry those which remain.

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“They didn’t deserve this.”

We hear these words following a death which has shocked us, rocked our world... We may have spoken them ourselves. But what are we really saying?

What is the this? And what do we mean by deserve? Are we talking about fairness, goodness, innocence, suffering, or about the deeply held assumptions about life and death that we may not even know we have until grief sweeps them from beneath our feet?

In this episode, Susan Hollins opens out one deceptively simple sentence and follows where it leads: into the untidiness of being human, the ancient questions raised by Job and the Psalms, into our strange relationship with Death, and to the difference between causation and deserving.

And perhaps They didn’t deserve this is not an explanation at all. Perhaps it's a protest. Perhaps it's a lament.

A 25-minute exploration of grief, fairness, mortality, and what happens when the world refuses to conform to the moral order we thought we understood.

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Grief is neither tidy nor rational. At times it may be quiet and seemingly manageable; at others it can overwhelm us, so that we behave in ways which surprise or even shock us.

In this episode I reflect on the wildness of grief: those times when grief refuses to be contained by our usual expectations of ourselves or by what others consider acceptable. Rather than seeing this wildness as something which must be controlled or suppressed, I consider the place it may have within our grieving, and what may happen when we give ourselves permission to experience it.

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