The Death of My Sister and How We Handled It

Sudden deaths can cause a loved one to question their whole belief system as they try to come to terms with their loss.

When viewing the film, My Sister’s Keeper, Kate reaches the end of the terminal stage of her illnesses, by dying in her sleep as her mother, Sara, sleeps next to her. The film ends with the family going to her favorite place in the world. From my perspective of that part, is their way of a remembrance of Kate. When a patient dies from a terminal illness, families grieve their lost in different ways. “Expressing the feelings of loss, anger, and sadness that comes with death of a loved one is a necessary part of the resolution of grief” (Rando, 1984, pp. 75). There is no exact way and one feeling an individual is to experience when in the process and at the end of losing a loved one. The process of a family grieving happens at any moment of

The 10 dimensions of Family Stress are a way to describe a family stressor. Lipman-Blumen created a list of 10 dimensions that family stressors are based on. These ten categories are: internal vs external, pervasive vs bounded, precipitate onset vs gradual onset, intense vs mild, transitory vs chronic, random vs expected, natural generation vs artificial generation, scarcity vs surplus, perceived insolvable vs perceived solvable, and substantive context. Some of these factors may seem obvious and others may not. Some may have a direct influence on the stressor and others may not. But, each of these can lead to a crisis if not taken seriously. For all of these categories, I think it all depends on the crisis and each situation.

Receiving the news of death is very strong especially to someone 's emotions. If told the wrong way it can be very harmful. Especially when finding out that they are still alive and be as

Research Report: Review of the Literature on Anticipated vs. Unanticipated Death and their Corresponding Coping Skills

Complicated grief is having many difficult dealing with loss. Even though that sometimes the loss has according many time before.according to katherine walsh there have been a history of depression or even anxiety for a person to go through a complicated grief. Complicated grief is when it last a long period of time and you can't just move on it hold on to you very tight. For complicated grief therapy is required. According to phsyo guides 10 percent of people going through a loss going through a complicated grief. There may need family therapy to help them during this period of time. J.william gave 4 way to deal with the loss. The first one is trying to accept that there are gone and there are not coming back. The second one is dealing with

The author explains how to deal with the death of someone you love. After a loss of a loved one, grief is difficult. The grieving process is a normal therapeutic response.

Crisis is defined as a precipitating event, followed by the perception of the event leading to anguish, next is the presence of reduced functioning of an individual which isn’t alleviated by normal coping mechanisms (Puleo & McGlothlin, 2014). There are many events an individual can experience that can lead to the inability to function such as hurricanes, fires, sexual assaults, suicides, or any other situation where immediate loss/assault has occurred. After a crisis occurs, a counselor has ethical/cultural considerations, responsibilities, and understandings of how to assess the individual following a crisis.

Losing a loved one is like having the rug swept from under you. We make plans for the day, and do not think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock, and undeniable truth of my uncle’s death. I do not think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. It is amazing how we take life for granted. The tragedy never goes away. You just learn how to cope with it and keep moving on.

“Ordinary people” everywhere are faced day after day with the ever so common tragedy of losing a loved one. As we all know death is inevitable. We live with this harsh reality in the back of our mind’s eye. Only when we are shoved in the depths of despair can we truly understand the multitude of emotions brought forth. Although people may try to be empathetic, no one can truly grasp the rawness felt inside of a shattered heart until death has knocked at their door. We live in an environment where death is invisible and denied, yet we have become desensitized to it. These inconsistencies appear in the extent to which families are personally affected by death—whether they

Although not everyone that comes across a stressor in life will experience a crisis, some are unable to cope with the stressor in a healthy manner and eventually succumb to a crisis. If this person does not receive the adequate crisis intervention during this state, he or she is likely to be unable to function at the level he or she had been functioning before the crisis. This will inevitably lead to additional crisis scenarios for every stressor they must face in life. “This pattern can go on for many years until the person’s ego is completely drained of its capacity to deal with reality; often such people commit suicide, kill someone, or have a psychotic breakdown.” (Kanel, K. 2007).

bereaved may feel guilty that they did not notice symptoms earlier, or waited too long to insist that

Human nature is a very complex thing and one of the complexities found within it, is our ability to form and maintain relationships, as well as build them to be stronger or break them apart. I find this area to be very interesting, so I decided to explore the complexity of relationships and what love has to do with that. Within that subject, I wanted to explore the subject of family and how they react to any kind of trauma because I personally have had a few experiences within my family that could be considered traumatic. I wanted to discover why things turn out the way they do, which lead me to the question as to why we respond to things and how do those responses affect a family. While the strength of the family’s bonds plays a role in whether

So the most important factor of dealing with someone who lost someone is to be sensitive. You have to understand what they are going through and realize that only time can heal their broken heart. The healing process is very important when you lose a loved one because there is no set date and time that you will be ready to be okay. Different people have different ways of how they take this and the process of this , some people may need to take a vacation and other may just want to be alone for a few days. For me, talking about the happy memories helped me get over the pain. It’s okay if someone does not want to talk about it for a few days. That does not mean that they are hiding anything or not feeling remorse, it just means that they might handle it differently and they do not want everyone seeing them show their emotions

In spite of this painful occurrence happening to me at twenty-four years of age, emotions such as shock, anger, and guilt, came into play creating chaos. I rerun her death in my mind, yet unable to completely forget the sadness, similar to a synopsis. These feelings can be frightening and overwhelming; however I have learned how to cope and with the realization that life and death are phenomenal both intertwined. I speculate that