Grieving For Dummies
Chapter One
Connecting Grieving with Loss
In This Chapter
* Understanding how grieving relates directly to loss
* Grieving in a highly competitive society
* Debunking death as the ultimate defeat
* Making sense of suffering
Before you can find a way to alleviate the pain of grieving, you need to
stop for a moment and find out just what grief is and what makes it tick.
Our pace of living has become so frenzied that we have less and less time for
stopping to investigate anything, let alone something such as grief that doesn't
carry the best of reputations. Nevertheless, to have a fighting chance of processing
your own grief with a modicum of grace or helping someone you care
about process his grief in a like manner, it's imperative that you understand
the process known as grieving, particularly the nature of grief, the close association
between grief and loss, and the factors in society that complicate the
natural response to grief.
A few factors tend to complicate grieving:
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