Argumentative Essay On Grief And Loss

Grief is a natural response to a major loss, though often deeply painful and can have a negative impact on your life. Any loss can cause varied levels of grief often when someone least expects it however, loss is widely varied and is often only perceived as death. Tugendhat (2005) argued that losses such as infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, adoption and divorce can cause grief in everyday life. Throughout our lives we all face loss in one way or another, whether it is being diagnosed with a terminal illness, loss of independence due to a serious accident or illness, gaining a criminal record (identity loss), losing our job, home or ending a relationship; we all experience loss

Grief is defined as a type of emotional or mental suffering from a loss, sorrow, or regret (Dictionary.com, LLC, 2010). Grief affects people of all ages, races, and sexes around the world. Approximately, 36% of the world’s population does or has suffered from grief and only a mere 10% of these people will seek out help (Theravive, 2009). Once a person is suffering from grief it is important to receive treatment. All too often, people ignore grief resulting in deep depression, substance abuse, and other disorders (Theravive, 2009). Grief counseling is very common and can be very helpful to a person in need of assistance. Grief counseling provides the support, understanding, and

A loss is something most people find difficult to deal with. A term commonly used to refer to loss is been bereavement, which is the position of having lately departed with someone important in one’s life through death. It is normal in the human world to experience such a loss and people ought to know how to manage such experiences when they do happen. Bereavement is never easy; it is a period that individuals experience too much suffering that leaves them feeling vulnerable. Some people are also at risk of developing physical health and mental problems. It can take months or

Loss is a phenomenon that is experienced by all. Death is experienced by family members as a unique and elevated form of loss which is modulated by potent stages of grief. Inevitably, everyone will lose someone with whom they had a personal relationship and emotional connection and thus experience an aftermath that can generally be described as grief. Although bereavement, which is defined as a state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one, is a universal experience it varies widely across gender, age, and circumstance (definitions.net, 2015). Indeed the formalities and phases associated with bereavement have been recounted and theorized in literature for years. These philosophies are quite diverse but

Each year thousands of teenagers experience the death of someone they love. When a parent, sibling, friend, or relative dies, teens feel the overwhelming loss of someone who helped shape their -fragile self-identities. Caring adults, whether parents, teachers, counselors or friends, can help teens during this time. If adults are open, honest and loving, experiencing the loss of someone loved can be a chance for young people to learn about both the joy and pain that comes from caring deeply for others. There are many common reactions to trauma, grief, and bereavement among teens. First of all, shock and denial. Feeling numb, stunned and dazed are healthy and normal reactions. Often, it is difficult to “take in” information. The grieved may

In some states a terminally ill person is given the option whether or not they want a physician assisted suicide to end their life. In “A Death of One’s Own”, they follow the lives of three people who are terminally ill and are closing in on the end of their life. One of those being a man named Jim Witcher. Jim lives in Louisiana, where physician assisted suicide is frowned upon. Jim is slowly becoming unable to do things that he used to do, do to ALS. This puts a lot of stress on him and his wife Susie. Kitty Rayl was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she lives in Oregon and has the option to have physician assisted suicide if she pleases. Oregon is one of a few states where this is allowed. Ricky Tackett was suffering from liver failure. His wife, Rose and his doctors had to make the decision to take away his water and nutrients.

Death is a universally experienced phenomenon. In the United States alone, over 2.6 million people die each year (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). For practitioners, it is of utmost importance to better understand the process of grief to develop better interventions for bereaved individuals.

It's a process that has to be dealt with. Another symptom that people experience is the feeling of numbness. People become so sad about their loss that nothing seems to matter to them anymore. The feeling of joy is gone and nothing brings happiness anymore. People go through their day without feeling anything. Their sadness spreads all over them and they can't control it. Grief is an immediate feeling. It can have various results such as pain, depression, and sadness. Our weakness begins to show more now than ever when we are grieving. We Losing a loved one is different for every person. Every person is different but there is definitely a clear pattern. In total, there are three outcome patterns. The first outcome pattern is chronic grief. Chronic grief is when someone becomes extremely depressed and a high level of grief. This type of grief can last for many years. The second type of grief is called the common grief pattern. This is when a elevation of symptoms such as depression, stress, and anxiety occur but last about a year or two. The third type of grief is when a person is not affected at all by the death of someone. This is very common for people. People may still be sad but they just are not emotional about it and grieve in different ways.

Grief is the act following the loss of a loved one. While grief and bereavement are normal occurrences, the grief process is a social construct of how someone should behave. The acceptable ways that people grieve change because of this construct. For a time it was not acceptable to grieve; today, however, it is seen as a necessary way to move on from death (Scheid, 2011).The grief process has been described as a multistage event, with each stage lasting for a suggested amount of time to be considered “normal” and reach resolution. The beginning stage of grief is the immediate shock, disbelief, and denial lasting from hours to weeks (Wambach, 1985). The middle stage is the acute mourning phase that can include somatic and emotional turmoil. This stage includes acknowledging the event and processing it on various levels, both mentally and physically. The final stage is a period of

Grief is a deep sorrow, most likely with someone’s death. Death itself is hard, especially if you lose someone very close and important to you. With death comes grief, which can be very hard to deal with. You have trouble communicating, even to your close friends. You also don’t feel like doing much. Going out or having fun just seems unimportant, or

Bereavement is a chronic, multifaceted psychological process of readjustment to a severe loss that is distinctly different from depression, or having a major depressive episode, although it may outwardly appear to be similar to it in many cases. Grief and mourning are both said to accompany grief with the former being defined as an internal feeling or an emotional and physical process, while the latter is defined as ritualistic acts that one engages in during bereavement in order to socially display their grief. Although bereavement is not depression, the newest edition of the DSM recognizes that bereavement can become complicated or maladaptive, as well as be coupled with depression, in which case it would

A loss is something most people find difficult dealing with. A term mostly used to refer to loss is bereavement which is the position of having lately departed with someone important in one’s life through death. It is normal in the human world to experience such a loss and people ought to know how to manage such experiences when they do happen. Bereavement is never easy; it is a period that individuals experience too much suffering that leaves them feeling vulnerable. Some people are also at risk of developing physical health and mental problems. Adjusting can take as long as a few months up to years depending on the individual in question.

An article written in The Telegraph in 2014 described how half of Britons in relationships do not know their partner’s end of life wishes (ref), talking about death seems to be a taboo subject. Yet all people will grieve and mourn and show some if not all stages of emotions when losing a loved one; Kubler-Ross describes the stages as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance (ref).

Dying is never lovely. Mary Roach, defines in her essay Don’t Jump, her craving to securely understand what it feels to drop as if she wanted to end her life. Believing, “That jumping-off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge would be a lovely way to go” (Roach, 2001). To be so desperate to choose such a magnificent location, the beauty of the protruding rock-strewn and grass covered hills, the silhouette of the city against the horizon, the sedative repetition of the rapidly moving current of the bay. The individuals that do travel to the Golden Gate Bridge to end their misery do not dive with a bungie cord, they leap with the hurt in their lives thinking that this is a certain method to end their desolation. Possibly they selected this landmark to make their last statement on Earth. Is there a method to reduce the casualties without tarnishing the

Have you ever lost a close one, friends, family? Once you experience a loss, everything changes. It’s a life changing experience, it’s the worst feeling in the world. When losing someone, you look back and have so many regrets. You start to think “Could I have been a better person for them?”. It’s permanent, once they are gone, they are gone.