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Deborah Golden Alecson
Deborah Golden Alecson MS is a thanatologist who teaches at Excelsior College in Albany, New York. In this article she talks about how writing and poetry have helped her survive multiple losses. Deborah is the author of Complicated grief: a collection of poems, We are so lightly here: a story about conscious dying, and Lost lullaby, and the recipient of The Washington Irving Book Award for nonfition in 1997. Her website is www.deborahgoldenalecson.com.