Grief: How to go on after your loved one dies

Widow Jothy was married to her husband for 12 years. Since his death, she has raised their four children on her own. Photo: The Star/Azlina Abdullah

It has been four years since his wife died. On a glass table in their home, there are two framed photographs of her: one taken when she was a young woman, the other when she had matured into middle age. Among the pretty trinkets, there’s a small bottle of perfume she wore.

“It looks like a shrine, but it’s really not,” Richard Yeoh says. “The photographs were from her funeral, and some of the other things were given by friends.”