Unfortunately, many people are likely to have occasion in the days and weeks ahead to write a letter of condolence to a friend, relative, colleague or acquaintance who has suffered the death of a ...

It’s hard to know what to do or say when someone you know loses a person who was close to them. Grief is a scary and amorphous thing, and if you haven’t experienced it, reaching out can feel like ...

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Not long ago, Amy Cunningham, a funeral director for Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, convened about twenty strangers in a third-floor room at the Sixty-seventh Street library in Manhattan, for a ...

When a business colleague or associate loses a close family member or friend, it is good business practice to write a letter acknowledging the death and expressing your condolences. This letter clears ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was taught by my mother and grandmother, who practiced what they preached, that condolence letters are to be acknowledged. Their practice was to answer every condolence letter ...

The following letter of sympathy has been sent to the parents of the late Theodore Gooding '05: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gooding: The class of 1905 of Harvard University extends its deepest and most ...