Grief

African Americans rely on spirituality and their belief in God along with life experiences to deal with life-changing events. Spirituality and experiences are used as coping mechanisms to help them through grief and bereavement. African Americans tend to share and interact with someone who shares in or is sensitive to their culture. Initially, they may appear unaffected by their loss, but will soon share their feelings with someone they feel they can trust…

Grief gets a fantastical makeover in Johanneke Dihkstra and Menno Boersma's otherworldly Ritus. Remember my last review? The one covering Le Temps des Adieux. It was a French coming of age film about grief. No? Oh ... okay then. Well, for the many of you who did not read it, I had mentioned that while death has varying interpretations (I'm quoting myself here), grief is a universal emotion that we all experience with death, but, even with it being universal, people grieve in their own way.…

allow empathy to be felt by the grieving person. Empathy is the ability to understand emotions (Kuther, 2017, p.199). When an individual goes through grief by suicide, they experience many changes in their socioemotional development. At an early age children are able to feel empathy for others, and that continues throughout emotional development until grief occurs. A comment on this post states “I just wish he would have talked to someone,” implying death by suicide. Death by suicide often…

going through a fatal illness or disease, they go through what is called through the five stages of grief. In the novel Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick, the main character Steven Alper goes through the five stages of grief. Because Steven’s little brother, Jeffrey Alper is found to have leukemia Steven starts to suffer the symptoms of the stages of grief. The five stages of grief being denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The first stage the main…

other family members cried too. The closing of the coffin felt like the son was saying good-bye. It is a sad day; the atmosphere was surreal. People were crying, holding hands and hugging each other. They are consoling each other through the pain and grief of losing a dear…

flying from her fingers as soon as she released them. Dust from their wings coated her tongue, making her cough, gag. The taste of it reminded her of ash, the last pull of a cigarette as it burned up to the filter, something toxic and foreign. Grief flew away from her, heading towards the open window. Laurel stumbled past the moths, to the bathroom, turning on the taps to rinse out her…

matter the age, the world keeps spinning. People often have a time of grief, but over time grief becomes bearable. Johnson states after the death of her best friend,” Time moved on and I with it” (Johnson 197). If a loved one dies some people feel as if their world stops turning, even though the world carries on outside of your cocoon of hurt. The aftershock of the explosion shouldn’t stop a person forever after a time of grief a…

grieving process are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This process and its stages are natural and not exclusive to western culture. People from all walks of life, cultures, and religions experience the same stages of grief. Denial and isolation are usually the first things we experience when someone we care about or a beloved pet dies. We also experience this when we or some one that we love is diagnosed with a terminal illness. There are a few reasons that…

Anger Nothing can make friends, family and Christians scatter like the anger of grief. Anger is usually directed at those the griever feels closest to since it is safer than directing it at strangers. Anger typically stems from feeling that the loss is unfair and it comes wrapped in the “why” and “why me” questions. Consciously or unconsciously, this anger is ultimately directed at God. Like Job of the Bible, Christians need time to process their anger. Unlike Job’s friends, Christians need to…

Wolfelt Bereavement Responses SELECT: Throughout our life, we create relationships with people, and perhaps one of the most difficult stages in life is when we have to deal with the death of a family member. As expressed by Greenberg (2013) mourning a love one implies changes, which also add distress to a person's life. How to understand such critical moments in life? In examining this process, Dr. Alan Wolfelt (2003) describes the six most common patterns (or stages) of bereavement that a…