In the greeting card aisles of many stores, sympathy cards are nearly sold out.Credit...Taylor Johnson for The New York Times Supported by By Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari The coronavirus ...

To this day, he gets teary remembering the comfort of the many messages of sympathy posted on his Facebook page. He also treasured the notes and cards that came through the United States Postal ...

Makers of sympathy cards seem to think that 19th-century diction is a kind of verbal Valium, especially if it’s rendered in italics. But what is the perfect card? Do I even know? I do.

Even if you're not the one grieving, sympathy cards can be emotionally taxing. Like...what do you say? And how do you say it? Here’s the good news: the person on the receiving end is going to be ...