This piece from Salon is about a topic discussed here in a thread about grieving.

Specifically, the idea is that perhaps we don't need to "let it all out."

I'm very interested in how our culture has evolved over time. I do think some openness about grief is good; when my beloved grandmother died in 1976 I had no idea that my crazy emotions were normal, and I certainly had no one to talk with about it. I think that would be less likely to happen now.

However, it does seem that things gotten a bit overboard.