Tamir asks whether there is an objective hierarchy of grief: sudden death versus prolonged illness, suffering plus death as the ultimate tragedy (as in Holocaust stories). Mia answers that grief is entirely subjective: a parent may gloss over a horrific murder while someone else weeps for weeks over a pet, and people grieve miscarriages because they lose the hopes and dreams planted in that child.
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- Grief is not only about death
We grieve lost friendships, ghostings, divorces, pets and miscarriages (the hopes and dreams planted in a future), not just the dead.