WE GRIEVE
For Those Who Live:
The dying individual will experience grief differently from the individual who loses a loved one. The dying person has only a limited amount of time to grieve or not grieve for themselves before death runs its course. The individual who loses a loved one has the rest of their lifetime to experience or not experience the effects of grief. Some will grieve and then move on with their life, some will continuously grieve in one form or another for the rest of their life, and some will grieve on and off throughout different periods of their life.
Here we will discuss grief for those who live on after the death of a loved one. The same basic stages of grief apply; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The difference between those who are dying and those who will live is the amount of time involved as mentioned above. For some, the different stages of grief can become a cycle they seemingly cannot escape from throughout the rest of their lifetime. For example, depression may become a reoccurring problem as they try and cope without their loved one by their side. For others, they will experience their loss with different stages of grief and move on with their lifetime to fulfill their life’s purpose in learning and growing toward their spiritual awareness.
Grief has no time limit. An individual grieves for their loss as long as it takes them to come to terms
with the loved ones death. Many factors affect how a person grieves. Was the
loss