During the holidays, giving gifts to the dead can help you cope with grief
- Written by Jenna Drenten, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago
A toy truck left at a tombstone in a Montreal cemetery.Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock.comEvery December, my family decorates two Christmas trees: one for our living room and one for the cemetery, where my sister is buried.
She died when she was 15 years old. Twenty years later, we still buy a new ornament each year to place on her mini graveside...
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