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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

Society and culture have created scripts (i.e., social norms) that dictate the ways in which we are to grieve. These scripts also prescribe the unique ways in which men and women are expected to respond to grief. Specifically, men’s grief scripts suggest that men will resolve to grieve in solitude as a demonstration of their self-reliance. Men may also have muted emotional response and expressed emotions are typically in the form of anger or guilt (Martin & Doka, 2011). Comparatively, women’s grief scripts suggest that women are more emotive and seek support from others to help cope with loss (Martin & Doka, 2011).

The life transition of death and dying is inevitably one with which we will all be faced; we will all experience the death of people we hold close throughout our lifetime. This paper will explore the different processes of grief including the bereavement, mourning, and sorrow individuals go through after losing someone to death. Bereavement is a period of adaptation following a life changing loss. This period encompasses mourning, which includes behaviors and rituals following a death, and the wide range of emotions that go with it. Sorrow is the state of ongoing sadness not overcome in the grieving process; though not pathological, persistent

Many people define their lives by the relationships within their family. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, or someone’s mother or father. The loss of a family member, especially due to death, creates a radical readjustment to people’s day to day lives and how they see and feel about themselves. Sometimes the process of grief can last over several years and how it is mentally processed and dealt with is different for everyone. “Mud” by Geoffrey Forsyth, shows an insightful view of a grieving man who had already lost his father and grandmother and is now just coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years prior. The entire story is written in first person point of view which allows for the reader to fully engage themselves in the grief and strife of the narrator’s life. Geoffrey’s story “Mud” begins in the home of the narrator where he encounters these dead family members and has to decide if he is ready to move on from his grief and say goodbye or stay behind and be consumed by it.

While I have always had an interest in gender studies, grief is a more recent interest to me where I have found passion for it since I have personally dealt with/am dealing with grief after losing my 18-year-old brother in 2016. Research shows that gender differences exist when it comes to grieving, and the purpose of my study is to develop and further understand how grief

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

This study was conducted using the phenomenological method. Phenomenology, like midwifery, strives to find meaning of human experiences. Doherty and Desch express their concern for the growing population of widowed women and its contributing factors. Some of those factors include war, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters. Two groups of women were chosen as participants, September 11th widows and US military widows from Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Ages ranged from 21-38 years old and

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.

Organizations such as the Women in Transition (W.I.T.) offers help and support to the women in need. This organization began in 1997. Primarily W.I.T. is geared to help women re-enter society after successfully completing a 12 step program while incarcerated. This is a transitioning to program which also pairs them with mentors after being released. Since 2013 there have been 748 women that served in the W.I.T program. Only 3% have returned to their previous lifestyle

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

Whether death is sudden or prolonged, anticipated or unexpected, it leaves many family members and friends feeling the effects of loss. Eventually they are expected to come to terms with the death and eventually let go and move on. All human cultures participate in ritual mourning, a set of symbolic rites and ceremonies associated with death. The rituals associated with death have a clear and important function. According to sociologists Victor Marshall and Judith Levy, “Rituals provide a…means through which societies simultaneously seek to control the disruptions of death and to make it meaningful…The funeral exists as a formal means to accomplish the work of completing a biography, managing grief, and

Such problems impede their recovery and ability to regain control over their lives (Phillips & Park, 2006). This results because domestic violence directly affects women’s financial security in key areas of life: debts, bills, accommodation, legal issues, health, transport, migration, employment, social security and child support (Arney & Scott, 2010). In this regard women need financial support to bridge the financial gap so that they become self-sufficient. In addition, Arney & Scott (2010) state that domestic violence is traumatizing and counselling services should be availed for social and emotional support.

The loss of a loved one is a very crucial time where an individual can experience depression, somatic symptoms, grief, and sadness. What will be discussed throughout this paper is what the bereavement role is and its duration, as well as the definition of disenfranchised grief and who experiences this type of grief. I will also touch upon the four tasks of mourning and how each bereaved individual must accomplish all four tasks before mourning can be finalized. Lastly, with each of these topics, nursing implications will be outlined on how to care for bereaved individuals and their families.

Following the loss of a loved person, a person usually begins a period where they grieve over the loss of that person. While grieving, a person usually has a hard time accepting that a beloved person is truly gone. A personal activity is usually apparent during this time, and while this activity is usually connected to the person that they have lose, it helps a person deal with the tragedy that has fallen upon them. This idea is apparent in the stories Kitchen and “Moonlight Shadow”, both of which written by Banana Yoshimoto. Throughout both Kitchen and “Moonlight Shadow”, it is clear that grief is the stage when an individual is in denial over a beloved persons, and while there are a number of different ways in order to cope with the grief, the only way to overcome grief for good is by accepting the fact that the individual who passed away is gone.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.