What The Death Of My Daughter Is Teaching Me About Grief
5 min readMar 1, 2019
On July 24, an orca named Tahlequah (also known as J35) gave birth to a calf that lived for less than an hour.
Afterward, Tahlequah carried or pushed her dead calf nearly a thousand miles over 17 days, finally dropping it on Aug. 11, at which point the Center for Whale Research in Washington state proclaimed that Tahlequah’s “tour of grief” was over. Her grief (for…
