Griefstrike! the Ultimate Guide to Mourning Paperback – January 3, 2023

Respectfully to the therapist who gave this a middling review, Griefstrike! isn't meant to provide therapeutic guidance with humor. It's about humor and catharsis. If you've lost someone close to you, as writer Jason Roeder did with his mom, you'll relate to the seemingly bottomless well of pain that accompanies it. This book takes that experience and finds humor in its awfulness, but not in a glib or superficial way. Use Griefstrike! as a nice counter balance to more serious books about grieving—both provide a necessary service, but take different approaches. Appreciate this for the catharsis and laughs it provides, because people who are grieving desperately need both of those things.

This was hysterical, of course (Roeder is a comedy legend, former head of the Onion, New Yorker regular etc.), but it also contains just the right amount of practical advice you want on this subject. I'm dreading losing my parents but I loathe self-help books and their ilk. This was a tour of the grieving process, larded with irreverence and wit, none of the dreaded claptrap, and roughly 1000% more jokes. A must-read for anyone with a mortality problem.

Jason is a friend and a co-writer, and yet I had nothing to do with this particular book. I read it for the first time after ordering it here on Amazon. It's truly brilliant, top notch humor writing. Heartfelt as well. This is as good as it gets.

I am a psychotherapist who helps people with grief and it's never easy. It's something I take seriously. As a therapist I do routinely interject humor into the process to lighten my client's feelings and perspectives. I was hoping this book would contain some humorous nuggets I could make good use of. Instead it was just one long piece of lampooning in which the author trots out joke after joke to show how clever and amusing he can be. I stopped reading at the middle. While some humor could be helpful in counseling grief-stricken people, turning the whole process of death into series of jokes and gags wasn't worth the author's efforts and in my opinion is not worth the reader's time. My advice is to skip this book and use the money for something else.

The book is hysterical! It's a tough balancing act to make a truly funny book on this topic without being disrespectful of people who are truly going through grief, but the book threads the needle masterfully.

I can only read a bit at a time but it a great book.

After losing two close family members in the last two years, I was hoping to laugh in the face of death for a change of pace. It didn't happen.

A truly essential tool for any grief/loss survival kit, by turns laugh-out-loud funny and touchingly vulnerable. I cannot recommend it highly enough.