Dear Maggie,

There’s been a lot of death in my family over the past few years. Both my parents, an uncle, and now a young cousin who died of complications after a minor surgery. I’m not dealing well with it all. I’m sad all the time. I don’t want to do anything fun. It’s affecting my marriage, and I’m messing up at my job. It just seems so unfair that so much death should come to one family like this. Do you think we could be under some kind of bad luck curse or something?

Signed,

Grieving