Cost (Paperback)

It was 2 AM. The usual suspects had already moved on. They knew where they were going the moment Lauren died.

Jon had shown them the way five years earlier. Keith had gone before that.

The narcissistic system doesn't grieve — it reorganizes.

And there I was. Still here.

COST is what remains when the system reveals itself in the presence of death — when those who claimed to love you disappear the moment you are no longer useful.

Three cardinals. Three witnesses who left before the report was finished.

This is for them. This is because of them.

I'm still here. That's a start.

— The Witness

A brother died. A son died. A daughter died. David Wittenburg wrote it all down anyway not to perform recovery, but because the truth deserves a witness. He is the author of The Witness Series; four books mapping the unnatural order of catastrophic loss, narcissistic systems, and what survives both. He is not a therapist or a grief counselor. He is a Vilomah a parent who has outlived a child and he carries that word the way every parent in this field carries it: with full weight. The Witness Series exists for those the language forgot. There is no word in English for a parent whose child has died. Sanskrit gives us Vilomah against the natural order. If that word belongs to you, you're in the right place. David hosts The 3 AM Inventory, The Kitchen Table, and Off The Grid podcasts, available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.