A Conversation for How Best to Cope with Bereavement
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Dancer (put your advert here) Started conversation Aug 23, 2001
1. Comfort: "He's now in a better place" "She is now at peace" and so on. Whether an afterlife beliver or not, Comfort can be applied to the death of a person, especially if the death was preceded by a long period of suffering.
Sadly, a period of suffering before death is sometimes helps the people close to the departed person to deal with the person's death.
Also, Solid afterlife belif is a good leaning point to lower the pain of greifing.
An extream example is the parents of Palestinian suacidal bombers in Israel. The firm belif that the child has died for a cause and that he/she would be rewarded greatly in the afterlif makes the sometimes (though this is only true for a reletively small part of the Palestinian population) willing to give the child away to death by suacide.
2. Detachment - psychological detachment is a mechanism that can be used to completely overcome greif. It is usually an automatic mechnism of the psyche and done in s subconcheous level. One of the main problems with this is that subconcheously, the grif is still there and is never really resolved.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 23, 2001
3. Also, If the Beraved is just gone and not dead, sometimes people pretand he/she IS dead, and that helps them realise that the one gone won't come back.
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