How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

The Marginalian2/10/2026

Summary

Meghan O’Rourke discusses the complexities of mourning and the process of learning to live with loss. She emphasizes that the people we love become a physical part of us, embedded in our synapses and in the pathways where memories are formed.

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