Mourning The Living - How Do We Cope?
When someone passes away, we know that we can never physically be with them again, and the mourning process begins. It is painful, difficult and heartbreaking all at the same time.
What happens when you are mourning the living? That person is so close but yet so far. How do you cope?
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Mourning—When we hear that word we think of the passing of a soul.
Did you ever think about mourning the living? What does that feel like?
MOURNING Definition: In the simplest sense, grief over someone’s death. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviors in which the bereaved participates are expected to participate.
This process of mourning is universal all over the world. Each culture grieves the same but different. We all have our own way of handling death, personally and as a community. When someone passes away, as difficult as it is to lose them, we know it is final in the sense that person has physically left this earth.
We know that we can never have another face-to-face conversation or receive that long-awaited hug. Our minds process the physicality of someone passing away. Of course, that doesn’t take away the emotional anguish, but in some sense, we can rationalize it.
WHAT ABOUT MOURNING THE LIVING?
Have you ever thought about that?
As we make our way through life, people do come and go. Friends, work associates, neighbors, and family. How do we handle it when someone is gone from our sight but is still physically roaming the earth?
Our brain is wired in such a way that when someone has affected our lives, we cannot just turn it off. Those images stay present long after the person has moved on. There will be a certain moment when you are triggered by a memory, and instantly you are transported back to a time of the past.
What do you do with all of those left-over feelings and connections?
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