From Cradle To Grave focuses on ways of overcoming the loss of a dear one.

The anthology covers the following: excerpt from a novel, short stories, story bytes, drama, poems, songs, essays, memoirs, pictures, art, cartoons, advertisements, and film clips. The texts are recorded by native speakers with audio-recordings integrated in the text files.

The Swiss-American psychiatrist  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' research on death and dying can be studied in her essay  On the Fear of Death. It forms the theoretical backdrop against which all the texts in the anthology can be understood.

Stephen Dixon's short story Loss unravels how a father's life loses its meaning after his young daughter has been killed.

In his memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake Morrison tries to  come to terms with his grief after his father's death. The same theme can be found in Gabeba Baderoon's poem The Pen.

W.H. Auden's renowned poem Funeral Blues gives the ultimate outcry of mourning. The two star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet by  William Shakespeare represent the quintessence of a tragic love affair where one cannot go on living without the other.

More heartbreaking stories can be found in From Cradle To Grave...