Nick Cave on his devastating grief after teenage son's death: 'Walking embodiment of loss'

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Australian singer-songwriter has sadly lost two sons, Arthur, who passed away back in 2015 and Jethro Lazenby, whose death was announced earlier this year.

It was the tragic death of Arthur, who was only 15 years old when he fell 60ft from a cliff in Ovingdean, Brighton, in July 2015, that changed Nick, 65, for good.

Most recently the singer has bravely spoken about how he has dealt with the grief of losing his son and how his album Ghosteen was recorded in an attempt to “contact the dead” shortly after his son’s devastating accidental death.Much of what Nick has done in his career, and the conversations he holds, circle back to the loss of Arthur.The life-changing event has made him confront questions on life, death, faith and his own identity.Speaking in a recent 2022 interview, Nick said that the loss of his young son “defines me”.He said: “This idea that people talk about of grief being tidal, of something that comes and goes, I don't think that's true; I think it's a situation where you become a walking embodiment of loss.“For me, it became impossible to be anything other than the person that I had turned into because of the death of Arthur.“It became a condition, and it was very difficult to be anything other than a grieving father,” he added to The Telegraph.Confronting his grief in an extremely public way, Nick was inundated with messages of condolence from fans who went on to share their own personal experience with loss.From this Nick has started a website, The Red Hand Files, with the maxim “ask me anything”, to respond to the rising volume of letters.

It was this website that helped Nick and his wife, Susie Bick, want to not only cope with their own grief, but help others.The singer explained that the website.