Death is one type of loss.

Death is one type of loss.
Most of the loss we experience in life won't involve death.
• Loss of innocence
• Loss of a significant relationship
• Loss of a job
• Loss of health
• Loss of mobility

When we limit "loss" to death, we restrict our awareness.
We treat it as big, infrequent events rather than what it actually is:
Constant. Evolving. Inevitable.

As fatigue is to exercise, loss is to living.

Why it matters:
When we conflate death and loss, we also misunderstand grief.

Loss is the cause.
Grief is the effect.

Grief is our mind and body adjusting to the reality of a loss. And we grieve across dimensions we rarely name:
• The futures we imagined
• The identities we held
• The world we expected

We barely give ourselves permission to grieve death.
How much worse are we at grieving everything else?

Here is an incredible visual of the loss we experience in our lives (see below).
The longer we live (and the more fully we live), the more we lose.

Loss isn’t punishment.
We don't "get past it".

Loss is the monument left behind by what mattered.