Carlo Leget wrote the book Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness (Routledge 2025) together with Danish clinical psychologist and grief researcher Mai-Britt Guldin, in which they present a new integrative approach to loss and grief. Both authors founded the Center for Grief and Existential Values in 2023.

The book explores living life consciously and finding strength in dealing with loss and grief. Existing grief theories are valuable, but can mean even more when they are integrated into an approach that brings together the physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual dimensions of it.

Grief can then become a window through which we learn to find our authentic and personal answer to the big questions of life around death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness.

About Carlo Leget 

Prof. Carlo Leget is professor of care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

His research focuses on the intersection of care, meaning and end of life issues. He is a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands, was vice-president of the European Association for Palliative Care from 2012-2019, and co-founder of the EAPC reference group spirituality.