Grief, Bereavement, & Suicide This is a critical analysis paper using academic literature to analyze the movie “What Dreams May Come.” The topic to be analyzed is grief, bereavement and Suicide. This movie gives us a serious picture of the cost of grief, bereavement. This movie is also about the suicide of the wife, because of her loss of first her children and later her husband to car accidents. Depression and a sense of hopelessness often precede suicide attempts. The loss of a loved one can be experienced as so unbearable that the survivor is tempted to “join” the deceased. Recently bereaved people often experience the presence of the dead and reunion fantasies may have some temporary value while bereaved individuals …show more content…
People make their own choices and decide to live for themselves. This disconnection leads to Annie living with her own innermost demons in her mind, and when she commits suicide she loses herself in darkness and the only place she can go from here is to the pits of Hell, (Hell is best described in this movie as looking like Dante’s inferno) only because at this point she is incapable and unwilling to perceive the light. (Cownie)
Soul-mates
What Dream may come is based on the 1978 novel by author Richard Matheson, tells a story about a man named Chris Nielsen whose love for his wife and soul mate named Annie is so powerful it transcends heaven and hell. Almost from the start of the movie this couple lose their children in a car accident and they are forced to cope and deal with the loss of their children, Annie’s depression from the grief of losing her children causes a mental breakdown, “Riches and Dawson have shown how the loss of a child has deep, long-lasting outcomes for one’s idea of self and other personal relations.” With the threat of divorce Annie fights her way back from the depression. Chris suddenly dies in an accident and Annie is thrust back into a deeper depression and the loss is too much for her to