What Kobe Bryant’s Death Reveals About Collective Grief
What we’re really mourning when we lose a beloved public figure
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3 min readJan 28, 2020
My friend Paul is known for making everyone around him laugh uproariously. He is judicious, skeptical — definitely not one for drama. But this past Sunday, when news of Kobe Bryant’s tragic death hit, he was an emotional wreck. For a few hard, heavy hours, I barely…
