• For the New Widow – For Crying Out Loud - Four Tips on Handling Your Grief

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    The funeral is over. Two weeks have passed. Or is it three?Read more…
  • The Last Goodbye

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    No one is immune in life to the sting of death of someone close to them. Sooner or later we all lose a loved one. This book is not about preparing for the death of someone close, the psychology of dying or coping with your loss.Read more…
  • Buy Funeral Flowers

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    In this day and age where almost everyone is so busy with work or other unavoidable engagements, attending a funeral or a wake can be quiet difficult. Buying funeral flowers is a very good and appropriate way for those who are too tied-up to send their condolences to friends or family who are mourning. Buying funeral flowers for the deceased will ease any negative feelings of those who are grieving.Read more…
  • Memorial Plaques

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    Plaques are not only used as tokens of appreciation, but are also used as memorial signage to identify where the deceased are buried. Memorial plaques are being used as an inexpensive alternative to tomb stones.Tombstones are more commonly used than memorial plaques to mark the burial ground.Read more…
  • Cheap Sympathy Flowers

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    Regardless of your location, whenever a person you know dies, the first thing that comes to mind is to send sympathy flowers to offer your condolences to the family of the departed. It could be for someone you personally know or a family member of a friend, a co-worker, or a person you share fellowship with at church. It does not really matter how much you know the person, but the flowers you give are for the grieving family.Read more…
  • Send Sympathy Flowers

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    Sympathy flowers are bouquets or baskets of flowers that you send to someone when they are feeling sad. Usually, this is when a person has died, and a living loved one is grieving. Although sympathy flowers can also be sent for others reasons - such as the loss of a treasured career or some other life tragedy, sympathy is usually best expressed in the case of someone dying (or passing on, if you prefer.Read more…
  • Buy Sympathy Flowers

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    To buy sympathy flowers, you can access a flower delivery service by telephone or the World Wide Web, or you can go directly to a flower shop and place an order for future delivery. Sympathy flowers are a perfect way to express your feelings. The death of a loved one can be one of the hardest experiences anyone can go through.Read more…
  • Sympathy Funeral Flowers

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    Whenever a loved-one or a friend is deceased, it is the simplest form of condolences to send sympathy flowers to the funeral. Studies conducted showed that the colors and the fragrance from the flowers and the sympathizing cards help ease the grief of the family members. It is a simple way of symbolizing that you share with them the grief they are going through during those troubled times.Read more…
  • Sympathy Flower Arrangements

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    Flower arrangement is an art. You have to know how to play with the colors of the different flowers to radiate the mood you want to project. You have to know how to cut the flowers properly for them to stand firmly or to fall properly and not fall because they are starting to wilt and die.Read more…
  • Funeral Flowers, II

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    Funerals are very mournful events that pass most people have to endure at different times in their lives. Taking care of funeral arrangements can cause a lot of stress and may tire just about anyone. A very helpful way to lessen stress in this time of mourning is by ordering funeral flowers online.Read more…
  • Silk Funeral Flowers

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    Consoling a bereaved family can sometimes be daunting; you might even feel helpless at realizing you’re not doing the right thing to comfort them. Good thing, there are flowers to help you out! Flowers are considered an excellent way to console one during their loss.Read more…
  • Discount Sympathy Flowers

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    Discount sympathy flowers are bouquets or baskets that are given to a grieving person, so that they feel supported - and at a price the buyer can easily afford. Whenever someone hears that someone they know passes away, many want to rush to the side of the mourning family members and comfort them in their time of grief. However, due to distance or other circumstances, sometimes this cannot happen.Read more…
  • Defining Suicide and Suicide Attempts

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    Suicide can be defined in the following manner: An act is suicide if a person intentionally brings about his or her own death in circumstances where others do not coerce him or her to action, except in those cases where death is caused by conditions not specifically arranged by the person for the purpose of bringing about his or her death, (Tom Beauchamp, 1978).In general it was believed that two populations (those who commit suicide and those who attempt suicide) are essentially separate, made up of different individuals. In a sense the words attampt suicide are a contradiction in terms.Read more…
  • For the New Widow - Deal Yourself a Deck of Joy - 52 Ways to Manage Your Grief

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    Your husband is dead. It is your first thought in the morning as you get out of bed and your last thought at the end of the day. You sleep alone.Read more…
  • Suicide: The Final Taboo

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    "We must light the dark corners of taboo and stigma. We must silence the loud voices of ignorance"---Adina Wrobleski.In the political environment today, it is extreamely difficult to watch the evening news or read the morning paper without being reminded of terrorism and suicide bombers.Read more…
  • Aching

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    Tears are my companions in the dark realm where my thoughts dwell would that I could escape prickling shards of happiness their passing brief is but a reminder ofac my pain burrowing deeper into the darkness I squeeze shut my mental eyes brighter moments bob and float life fireflies in a darkening night my mind's eye shifts away seeking the comfort of shadows the absence of light my heart grudgingly follows e'en as it tugs to escape the darker path the deeper me would take. enfolded in my mantle black in this void I'm more secure... for now, I'll wander bleaker lands explore the colder climes...Read more…
  • For the New Widow: Ten Tips To Help Her Survive...After the Funeral

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    You’re home now. A short while ago you stood over a hole in the earth. You blew a kiss, tossed a rose, sprinkled a shovelful of dirt over a casket, and said goodbye to your husband, your soul mate, the best friend you ever had.Read more…
  • My Axis Was Broken While The Earth Was Spinning Out Of Control

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    That weird feeling returns every single time somebody I loved passes away. Maybe other people feel it too. I’m sure they do.Read more…
  • Funeral Planning: Producing a Photographic Tribute

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    Planning a funeral can be complicated and wrought with emotion. Anger, despair, depression, confusion combine into a turbulent cocktail in the mind through which some fairly important decisions need to be made. What type of funeral?Read more…
  • A Glimpse of the Divine Presence in A Little Pile of Seeds

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    One Thursday this past April Jesse (my seven-year-old) was running a temperature of 101 degrees when he woke up in the morning. I stayed home with him. Around noon I had to take him out to do a couple of errands that couldn't wait.Read more…

Most Recent Articles in Grief Loss category

  • The Gift - By: Angelique Ellerman
    This article was written to help those who are dealing with the loss of a loved one. Death is just another stage in life, one that can be learned from and help each of us to evolve. Know that you are not alone and it will get better with time.
  • Crisis - How Will You Cope? - By: Tamara Johnson
    Summarizes the grief process after crisis. Outlines the natural grief process that leads to healing.
  • Acknowledging and Supporting the Difficult Life Transitions of Those We Care About - By: Chellie Bonebrake
    From the end of a relationship with a person, house, or job to the diagnosis and treatment of a serious illness, we all encounter struggles in our lives. A hug, a laugh and a supportive message from someone who cares go a long way in providing comfort to a heavy heart. Many people are unable to be with a friend or loved one as they adjust to a difficult situation.
  • For The New Widow - Three Things To Remember - When The Moon In The Sky Hits Like An Axe In The Eye - By: Linda Della Donna
    It’s the end of the day, the end of the week, the end of the month.The cat’s in the cradle and the dog’s in the yard.Or, is it the other way around?
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    A song written by R. Beresford and H. Sanders and sung by country music’s living legend, George Jones , entitled, If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will) , has a much different meaning for me today.
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    The past is over and nothing can be changed. We cannot accept the happening in the past so we tend to cling hard to that experience. We just let our future and present move fearing the past would repeat.
  • Communicating With Deceased Loved Ones - By: Yvonne Perry
    My interest in the Afterlife and spirit communication began in earnest in 2000, when my life literally fell apart. There was an entity that began to manifest to comfort and console me as I was going through my divorce. Whenever I cried, this loving presence touched me in a warm and motherly way.
  • What Does God Have To Say About Death? - By: Jennifer C
    The day we are born, we begin to die. It’s a given fact of life, yet one which we spend much of our lives trying to ignore or defy.The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die ..
  • I Will Never Die! - By: Yvonne Perry
    That is a bold statement, but you see, I no longer believe in death. My body may demise and my spirit may depart from it, but who I am (my essence) will NOT die.Some people view death as a fearful tragedy, the end of a life, a sad finality.
  • Life on the Other Side - By: Yvonne Perry
    If only we knew what was on the Other Side of this life! Knowing for sure what lies ahead might make a difference in how we view dying and aging and how we handle the death of a loved one.Much of our fear about death is rooted in delusions and distorted ways of looking at life and the world around us.