Why do we grieve at all? Wouldn’t it be more helpful for some switch to flip in our brains when a close member of our family or community dies, causing us simply to forget they ever existed? We could just move on, rearrange our lives so everyone could function as best as they could without that person being there.
We grieve though, and it seems that other mammals grieve too. It’s been suggested that Dogs, Elephants, Primates, Dolphins and…
