A Conversation for How Best to Cope with Bereavement
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Minifig Thom Started conversation Aug 23, 2001
well. i feel that dealing with bereavment is an inevitable part of life and should not be feared. the fact is that after a reasonable time of grief you just have to get on with things. from time to time you feel the loss like a large punch to the stomach, but these times gradually become further and further apart until eventually you can just reflect on the luck that you had to know the lost person in the first place.
i think what i'm trying to say is that people have a built in ability to deal with the death of others. knowing people unfortunately comes with the not-so-welcome add on of losing people. everyone has felt or will feel the loss of someone they knew. just remember the people that you have left. just live and leave death to the dead and dying. don't take life too seriously, and when you can get back to enjoying it. if the people that you lost loved you, then that's what they'd have wanted for you after their death.
all of this stuff is a lot easier said than done, but i speak from the point of view of someone whose been through it all very recently.
thom 
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