You Don't Know What You Got Till Its Gone

What makes a life meaningful and how do we know when our lives have meaning? This paper provides a new answer to these questions drawing on the experience of grief. It is argued that grief is a unique kind of transformative experience that gives us access to facts about the meaningfulness and value that even the most seemingly mundane aspects of our day-to-day lives have had which goes largely unrecognized until the source of that meaning is lost