"Journalist Cody Delistraty reflects on his experience with loss and explores what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure."--

Prologue -- Can Grief Be a Disorder? -- Laughter -- Technology -- Perception -- Medicine -- Deleting Memories -- New Rituals -- Expanding Definitions -- Finding Community in the Age of Loneliness -- Breakthrough.