After my mother died, friends gave me chocolate -- fudge, fruits dipped in bittersweet, a box of cocoa-dusted truffles. The gifts brought pleasure and consolation: pleasure because they were delicious reminders of the kindness of friends; consolation because they let me think kindly of my mother, a... -
Death and Chocolate: A Sampler for the Psyche
After my mother died, friends gave me chocolate -- fudge, fruits dipped in bittersweet, a box of cocoa-dusted truffles. The gifts brought pleasure and consolation: pleasure because they were delicious reminders of the kindness of friends; consolation because they let me think kindly of my mother, a...-
By Selma Moss-Ward