Understanding Grief In a conference session entitled "Understanding Grieving Families," bereavement professional Paul V. Johnson highlighted both the individual and relational nature of grief as it occurs within a familial context. "Grief," he states, "...consists of the interplay of individual family members grieving in the social and relational context of the family, with each family member affecting and being affected by the others." Families sometimes erroneously believe that each member's grief will be similar to the others' because they have experienced the death of a specific...

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Since the creation of man, death has been an integral part of humanity. Despite daily experiencing our friends and relatives die, there seems to be a challenge of regarding answering the question when and how to do, since we all succumb to the thanatophobia issue. It is the tendency to mortality. Ne...

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For each human being, death always has been something mysterious and scary. Normally, humans are scared of losing their lives because they do not know what to expect from death. It is something that is indescribable and that nobody will ever be able to explain. However, human beings overcome death b...

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