Intersting thoughts, everyone. Thank you for your input. notworthy

Let me point out, however, that fictional portraits of bereavement and grieving haven't always been about tragic men trying to survive without their women. Remember the movie "Ghost"? Where Demi Moore's female lead character was mourning her dead husband (or possibly boyfriend), played by Patrick Swayze? Wow. A woman's bereavement was interesting enough to make a movie about. And a man could be portrayed as dead!

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Of course, the movie is from 1990. Those were the days.

(Yes, there's also "The Sixth Sense", a brilliant movie, but not the same kind of "death story" as "Ghost". In any case, "The Sixth Sense" is also from the nineties, from 1999.)

Ann

P.S. There is also "The Gift" with Cate Blanchett. That movie is not from the 1990s, but it is still ten years old, since it is from 2000. The movie is about a widow trying to raise her three sons by herself, supporting them by working as a fortune teller. A dead man plays an important role. So back then it was possible to make stories about women trying to deal with widowhoood and stories about men being dead. But something has happened to our cultural climate.