Across the long history of human grief, the living have always sought ways to remain in relation with those they have lost. Now, emerging research suggests that this impulse — expressed through mediumship and felt contact with the deceased — may carry genuine psychological weight, offering measurable comfort to the bereaved regardless of whether any supernatural truth underlies the experience. Science, long skeptical of such practices, is beginning to ask not whether the contact is real, but whether the solace it provides is.