The article presents a conversation between poet and writer Meghan O'Rourke, author of "The Long Goodbye," and novelist and travel writer Hanya Yanagihara, author of the novel "A Little Life." O'Rourke and Yanagihara discuss the role of the Internet in making grief public again wherein people can post about the death of someone on the online social network, such as Facebook, the scale of trauma and grief of the Syrian refugee child, and the ethical, human response with the Syrian refugee crisis.