Review article
Bereavement, grief and offering relief. With special reference to unhappily ended pregnancy
Maja Jakšić
; Center for education and consulting Hippocampus
Abstract
Death of a loved one is one of the most difficult life experiences. We live in a time when the fact of death is denied and suppressed and due to the lack of sufficient knowledge about the process of grieving and giving relief to the grieving, we don’t know how to cope with either our own or others’ losses. During the life people are confronted with various kinds of losses, sometimes with the most difficult ones, the loss of their own child. There are two specific situations when losing a child to which the neighbourhood, sometimes even the grieving ones, do not attach sufficient importance or do not recognize it as a real loss or find it very hard to cope with it. It is the loss of a child not yet born and a stillborn child. This kind of loss is the same in everything as other kinds of losses, except that the aggrieved person does not get, and often does not ask for necessary support and help. Therefore it is important to know the basic things about the process of mourning, as well as to recognize and understand the aggravated, concealed or disturbed mourning so that we could help ourselves, and also offer relief and comfort to those who mourn.
Keywords
loss; death; mourning; miscarriage; offering relief
Hrčak ID:
131455
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2014.
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