Experience Of Bereavement

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Individual experiences of bereavement cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the context within which they occur. Discuss with reference to either the cause of death or the age of the deceased person.

Death can be perceived as the most natural pehrnonomen known to man, it touches all of our lives at some point or another and we grieve when someone close to us dies there are various counselling services such as Mind and Cruise. These in tern can enhance the feelings of anger, fear and sadness (Cruise Bereavement Care, 1976 to 1977, as cited by Arniston, 2009). We all have misconceptions that manifest itself due to the age of the deceased and the bereft person. In order to that they be understood and the mechanism of grief in limiting
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et al.ed. 2009).

We know from experience that the place of death seems to be of great importance the older we get especially as we approach the 90s, the older the patient gets they are more than likely to make a pact, as did Colin and Alice Anson. (Allen, 2017). “We’ve have had a long and happy life what more can one expect’

What strikes me most how we cope or don’t when there is a sudden death and this does not matter if the person is young or old. Also further sociologists Eyre and Riches “that gender, has a big part to play in how grieve” (Woodthorpe,
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(2017) "We escaped the seas to live a full life and a happy life now it's time for us to die", The Daily Mirror.

Arnason, A (2009) The theoretical context of treatment, Milton Keynes, The Open University

Komaromy, C (2009) Death and Dying: A Reader, Chapter 2, sight and sound of death: The Management Of Dead Bodies In A Residential Nursing Home For Older People

Stevens et al. (2009) K260: Death and dying, End-of-Life Care in Context, Unit 2 End of life care practice, The Open University, Milton Keynes, pp. 29-50

Slidell, M Watts, J Komaromy, C (2009) The Temporal Context Of Berverment, Milton Keynes, The Open University.

The Open University (2009) Block 1, Activity 1.4 Approaching Death, Milton Keynes, The Open University.

Woodthorpe, K (2009) The Social Context A The Beverevement (DVD), Unit 3 Milton Keynes, The Open University

Woodthorpe, K. (2009) "The Contexts of Grief and Bereavement", 1st Ed. In The Contexts of Grief and Bereavement, Milton Keynes, The Open University, p. 74.

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