HUMAN(e):: A Radical Reimagining of Grief, Loss and Learning to Live Without

by Rachelle Bensoussan

250 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2024

About the author

Rachelle Bensoussan holds a master’s degree in Thanatology and has spent the last fifteen years advancing grief literacy across Canada and the United States. She is a former faculty member at both McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and King’s University College. Rachelle is a two-time nominee for the Association of Death Education and Counselling’s Academic Educator Award and Community Educator Award. Rachelle is a Queer woman of North-African & Middle Eastern descent. She currently lives in Toronto with her brilliant wife, her magical daughter, and her highly dysregulated Yorkshire Terrier.

Reviews

[Kate Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is more than a self-help book, more than an educational resource. Human(e) is an eye opening, heart opening EXPERIENCE that I savoured every word of. It’s the book I’ve recommended to the most people this year.

As a feminist trauma counsellor myself, I already had a pretty strong foundation of knowledge when I started reading Human(e), but the way Rachelle Bensoussan has expanded my grief literacy this book just can’t be understated. This is a book the world needs - especially here in the West (I’m in Toronto Canada), where oppressive culture norms constantly dehumanize what it is to be human.

To grieve is to be human, and to develop grief literacy as individuals and as community members is HUMAN(e). I want so much more of humaneness in the world, and if you do too, I urge you to dive into this important and truly beautiful work and then share it widely.