Offering data-driven support to bereaved families and informing public policy to advance care for all
07/31/2025
Though I Knew Love Before, read by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a Colorado poet who lost her son, Finn, in 2021 when he was sixteen years old. She is also mother to Vivian and step-mother to Shawnee. She has written two books that explore grief, the death of a child, and the possibility of falling in love with the world after a traumatic loss, All the Honey and The Unfolding. Rosemerry is Evermore’s first Poet Laureate, where she helps make the world a more livable place for all bereaved people. Learn more about Rosemerry at wordwoman.com.
07/29/2025
Parents who lose children to traumatic deaths often face severe mental and physical health consequences and rely solely on medical examiners who lack training to provide grief support, leaving families struggling to find help.
This clinical trial evaluates two interventions: CommunityRx-Bereavement and General Bereavement Support.
In a randomized trial, parents will be surveyed around six and a half months post-loss to determine which strategy more effectively connects them to needed resources and improves outcomes.
Guided by multi-instrumentalist Annie Wenz, Grief and the Music Within is an immersive experience where participants explore loss through songwriting, reflective writing, sound frequencies, and guided imagery.
Through gentle writing prompts, sound exploration, and shared musical expression, this workshop offers space to explore memories, emotions, and the stories that shape our grief. Together, we'll use music and language to give voice to what lives inside us—turning sound into meaning and silence into song.
Join us on Zoom ⤵️
August 27, 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Tickets $15 🔗 Evermore.org
07/25/2025
This study examines racial disparities in bereavement burden, as it is an understudied area, due to lack of measurement tools. Using longitudinal data from 27,985 participants, the study introduces three indices to quantify premature and cumulative loss.
Black and Native American individuals faced higher lifetime loss burdens than other racial groups, persisting after adjusting for covariates. Greater loss burden at the entry of the study also predicted higher mortality risk.
The findings highlight how “too soon” and “too much” loss contributes to poor health and earlier mortality.
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Measuring Premature and Cumulative Family Member Bereavement: Racial Disparities and Later Mortality Risk
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
By Michelle Chang & Theodore F. Robles
07/24/2025
Always in my heart and on my mind. 💙
You are never alone in your grief, despite how isolating it may feel. Join a community of bereaved individuals at Evermore.org/newsletter.
07/23/2025
You shouldn't have to choose between keeping your job and mourning a loved one.
At Evermore, we advocate for paid bereavement leave and stronger protections for grieving people across the U.S. Because care shouldn't be optional.
📢 Learn how you can help to make your community a more supportive place for bereaved people at Evermore.org/advocate-with-us
07/23/2025
Parents who lose children to traumatic deaths often face severe mental and physical health consequences and rely solely on medical examiners who lack training to provide grief support, leaving families struggling to find help.
👉 This clinical trial evaluates two interventions: CommunityRx-Bereavement and General Bereavement Support, delivered via a community organization.
In a randomized trial, parents will be surveyed around six and a half months post-loss to determine which strategy more effectively connects them to needed resources and improves outcomes.
📍The study has seven locations in Illinois. Find more information at https://loom.ly/_5AHNWI
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*Evermore is not endorsing or leading this research study, but we do believe in advancing bereavement research for all people in America. Contact study leaders if you are interested in participating.
07/22/2025
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After years of meeting with thousands of people, this is our conclusion.
In every neighborhood we've visited, every doorstep we've crossed, every kitchen table we've been welcomed to, every conversation lands in the same place: people need more. Bereaved individuals and families need more services and support. The professionals who serve families need more resources. Researchers seeking innovative therapies need more funding. Everyone needs more and yet, the issue remains invisible to most (until you need it).
The lack of bereavement care in America is an invisible public health crisis and our nation needs to do more for all of us.
Evermore is dedicated to bringing national attention and investment to bereavement care and we need your help.
We believe the United States should have the most advanced bereavement care system in the world. Care is not only offered among four walls of a therapist's office. Rather, our hospitals, law enforcement officials, first responders, clergy, employers and more contribute to the health and wellbeing of individuals and families. Bereavement should no longer be inconvenient or invisible; rather, it is a shared experience that we can call upon when our fellow neighbor or friend is thunderstruck.
Far too many of us know the severe and devastating toll a death can cause on our ability to thrive. We can change this experience for the thousands, millions, to come. We need your help.
