“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Further Reading

These are sources we encountered during the wandering that aren’t necessary to support the claims currently made in the blog post, but genuinely extend the conversation.

• Gudmundsdottir, M. (2009). Embodied grief: Bereaved parents’ narratives of their suffering body. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying, 59(3), 253–269.
• Millar, B., & Lopez-Cantero, P. (2022). Grief, continuing bonds, and unreciprocated love. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 60(3), 413–436.
• Lykins, A. D., McGreevy, P. D., Bennett, B., Paul, N. K., & Gotsis, N. (2024). Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death. Death Studies, 48(7), 698–705.
• Nieforth, L. O., & Kaufman, S. (2026). Practitioner experiences of the death of an equine in an equine-assisted services program. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying, 93(2), 948–968.
• Kaufman, S. V. A., & Nieforth, L. O. (2026). “There’s no blueprint for this kind of loss”: Resilience following the death of an equine in an equine-assisted services program. Death Studies, 50(8), 1389–1399.
• Smith, R., Pinchbeck, G., McGowan, C., Ireland, J., & Perkins, E. (2021). Caring for the older horse: A conceptual model of owner decision making. Animals, 11(5), 1309.
• Køster, A. (2026). Understanding loss: An existential framework. Philosophical Psychology, 39(4), 1449–1471.
• Kauffman, J. (2002). The psychology of disenfranchised grief: Liberation, shame, and self-disenfranchisement. In K. J. Doka (Ed.), Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice (pp. 62–77). Research Press.