Marisol Villarreal 
McAllen- A death cafe, one of the first of its’ kind held at the Luna Coffee House in McAllen, lead by Dr. Michael Butler and guest speaker Catherine Fullarton, reached into the hearts of audience members with one question — How do they deal with grief?
Catherine Fullarton is a graduate student from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She began by saying she is not a professional grieving counselor, but that she was there to lead the discussion. She explained her own personal experience with death from when her father passed away. One of the points she made during the event was that the way people grief may vary depending on their socio-economic group.
“Some of us may feel that we have to grieve in a certain way or that we don’t have space to grief in the way that we would need or that we would like because we feel pressured to get back to work or to get back to being productive,” said Fullarton.
Fullarton goes on to say that people may believe grieving is something that they have to do in their personal time, but she argues that grief knows no borders.
“Grief doesn’t obey borders like that, it resists all of our efforts to corral it into a certain part of our life and part of what that means is that a way of dealing with grief in a healthy and productive way might be to just take time to deal with those feelings either by yourself or in your relationships or in your social groups,” continued Fullarton.
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