... graphically describes the overwhelming shock and impact of witnessing their deaths and how that moment engulfed him emotionally. Through this narrative he explores the complex emotions that arose from this traumatic experience, one that compelled him to examine the complexities of facing his own mortality...

... discussion, commentary, and writing, my autoethnography emerges as more personal and concrete. The inevitable death of my mother collides in my mind with the university’s literacy curriculum as I am teaching it, and I am forced to revisit the absence of friends, and my mentor to cancer. The denial of death...

...Kari Lerum This article is a critical autoethnography of connections between the author’s “writer’s block” and the deaths of her sister-in-law and father. The investigation includes journal entries, vignettes, and internal monologues; obituary excerpts; pandemic chronicles; and conceptual...

... remains, and how future bereaved people will make use of digital footprints that the dead leave behind. bereavement blogs continuing bonds death dying family relationships grief mother–daughter relationships My mother died eight years, five months, eleven days, fourteen hours, and twenty...

...Kim Silow Kallenberg The deaths of Marcus and Noel—childhood friends of the author—is the point of departure for this essay. The author uses the concept of an autopsy—both the actual autopsies performed on her friends after their deaths and an autopsy as a metaphor for dismantling the author’s own...

... captive and seeks to encourage reflection on how to move forward toward a living existence. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 critical autoethnography autoethnography relationality identity border theory Vietnam veteran childhood death life My father died...

... personal experiences with academic research can reveal an understanding of complex, painful issues, such as death, grief, and traumatic loss,” 3 in hopes to inspire others to share their autoethnographic experiences. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 grief death loss...

...Kitrina Douglas Arthur Bochner 1 wrote that even though he’d written about grief, he never really understood it until the death of his father. I suspect many of us recognize a truth in what he said. Often unannounced, death creeps like an unwelcome stain into our lives. I wonder how many of us...

... left me unable to voice the trauma. Throughout, I draw on various scholars’ interpretations of writing, loss, trauma, and nonhuman relationships, and emerge with a tribute to our significant relationships to others: friends, students, nonhuman animals. Companion animal death grief disability...