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Suicide Bereavement: A Qualitative Study

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METHODOLOGY The study focuses on the suicide bereavement and the other forms of bereavement. We will be using the qualitative research methodology in this study. Most of the quantitative studies conducted to find whether the bereavement due to suicide is different than other forms of bereavement found that there is not much of a difference in the bereavement. Simple quantitative measures of grief may not identify some of the thematic or qualitative differences such as the heightened feeling of guilt and preoccupation with the question of why the death has occurred. These are more likely to be observed in qualitatively based research methodology. (Neimeyer & Hogan, 2001) The studies conducted by McNiel and colleagues and Wagner and Calhoun

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