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Ways to Cope With Bereavement
Most traumas, including the death of a spouse are potentially shattering experiences. These events can disrupt the survivor’s social, emotional, and cognitive worlds. Although there has been frequent mention in the literature that traumatic situations cause people to talk about their experiences most evidence has been anecdotal.Read more…Death and Dying
This article explains a few things about Grief, and if you're interested, then this is worth reading, because you can never tell what you don't know.For over 15 years, I served the needs of the dying. They taught me a great deal about living.Read more…Funerals - Planning The Basics
Planning a funeral is never going to be a pleasant task, whether it be your own or that of your nearest and dearest. However, this article aims to give you some idea of what to expect when you have to plan a funeral for the first time.The first thing you will need to do is to contact an undertaker.Read more…Negotiation and Death
If a person knows the end is imminent, a negotiation with Death occurs that bears a striking resemblance to everyday negotiations we see in mediation practice. The Death negotiation process goes through five distinct stages, just like a mediated negotiation.Stage One: DenialThe first stage of opposing parties confronting each other is Denial, which is also the first reaction of a person facing death.Read more…Life Trumps Death
Do you ever ponder the meaning of life? Why are we here? Perhaps these questions surface when we receive news we'd rather not receive, the passing of an uncle, a beloved aunt, a friend's spouse who died for the wrong reason.Read more…Suicidal Impact
I arrived at work that night as always: rushed, tired, frustrated, like most of us seem to be these days. I took it for granted that it would be just another night at work; that nothing would change, that everyone and everything, was fine. But I quickly learned everything wasn't fine.Read more…"Mom," Shining Down On Me (Respirator Related)
Do you have a living trust made out? Is it filed in a safe place? Do you want to be able to make the final decisions on your own life?Read more…Is It Ok To Cry?
I attended the earthly funeral ceremony yesterday of a friend. His earthly completion to us here in earth would be considered too soon, as he was but forty-four years of age. A sudden completion, needless to say it was a shock to everyone.Read more…Of Death, Dying, and the Possibility of a Hereafter
Death is the greatest of our fears. Most of us believe it to be a cruel, catastrophic finality-the end of all we know, of all we are. Yet, Albert Einstein said, “When gazing into the profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, life and death flow into one another.Read more…Trusting God When Life Becomes Too Real
A teenager drowned in the sea during a Church youth camp. A large group of believers who gathered for a pastors’ convention were all killed in a hotel fire accident. A faithful and talented evangelist acquired acute diabetes and had to have both his legs amputated.Read more…Good Grief, What Good is it?
"Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those things for which you are angry and grieved." Marcus AntoniusEmotions are feelings in motion. You can let them move on.Read more…Grief: Factors That Delay Closure
In my other articles I have described the process of grief and how and why do we grieve over a loss. In this article I describe the factors that delay or disallow a person to bring the issue of a loss to a closure. When the closure does not happen, the person is pre-occupied with the departed person.Read more…Grief - Why Do We Grieve?
A young boy is close to his mother. He is five years old and she is thirty years old. She is in contact with her everyday of his life.Read more…Grief: Signs of Closure
In my fifteen years of helping people change their lives working with emotional distress I have learnt many new things about human life and behaviour. Many of these lessons have come about with experience and not from books. One of such lessons is- how do we know when someone has completed the grief ‘process’.Read more…The Heart of Grief
Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care.Read more…Don't Take it for Granted
I originally wrote this in college, but it is still just as timely now.You never know what you have until it’s gone.I always believed in that.Read more…My Mother's Passing
My father passed a few years ago. It left a wenching feeling within my heart which I had not expected as we had not communicated in years. I was sitting at my desk, where I worked at the time for a theatre company here in Chicago.Read more…Grieving Losses
“It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better and gains gladness. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning….Read more…Crying Is A Healing Activity
More or less everywhere in the world, children are taught to refrain from crying. I remember incidents from my own early childhood. If I fell down and then cried , my family members would distract me from crying.Read more…Effective Ways to Deal With Sadness and Grief, Part 1
No one ever has a problem dealing with happiness or feeling good. When joy comes into our life we experience it freely, but when sadness or grief is present, we often struggle with them. We live in a culture that tells us to "put on a happy face," and this can make it very difficult to be comfortable with sadness.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? - If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) - By: Earl Erickson
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. - Balloons... To Release, Detached And Let Go? - By: K Amber
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.