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Grief As Self-Knowledge Tool
- Grief can provide distinctive self-knowledge by forcing us to reconfigure our practical identity after a death.
- Administering a drug to remove grief risks depriving someone of that emotionally indispensable opportunity for self-understanding.
Fittingness ≠ Personal Benefit
- Feeling that grief is 'fitting' doesn't by itself show it benefits the griever.
- Cholbi argues we must identify concrete good consequences of grief to justify its value to the grieving person.
Who Counts As Grief's Object
- People we grieve are those who have been part of our practical identity in various roles, not only intimate lovers.
- Parasocial losses (e.g., David Bowie) can count as real grief when they shape our identity.