Darcy L. Harris, RN. RSW, PhD, FT, is Professor Emeritus of Thanatology at King’s University College / Western University in London, Canada.  She is also a faculty member of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition and co-editor for Routledge publishing company’s Death, Dying, and Bereavement Series.  Her research interests include non-death loss and grief, including structural, political, and environmental grief, in addition to social justice issues in contexts of loss and grief, and the application of compassion-based approaches to loss and grief.