Essays on Grieving

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1945. The poem shows how lost love can lead to depression. Depression, and mental illness in general, is a topic common to many of Poe’s works, and he often uses an unreliable narrator as one of the primary means of showing such depression. Following the death of the woman he loved, a male speaker narrates “The Raven,” and through this first person account, the reader is allowed a glimpse of his descent into madness. Through the poem, Poe demonstrates to how the experience of losing a loved one can propel someone ...

Losing someone you care about due to death is heartbreaking. Wolterstorff laments his son Eric. Wolterstorff expression upon receiving the news of the death of his son depicts the love he had for his son. Although he was not there during most of his time, Woterstorff took the initiative to narrate his encounter. It is quiet inspirational as he laments the way he will be missing his son. His faith in God comforts him. Ideally, Wolterstorff wrote the lamentation book to assist others gets inspired facing the same predicament. The book is ideal for those who are grieving Eric ...

Loss can be in many forms in our lives each day. It is common, especially for military families who have so much to deal with and changes that occur in an instant. One of the common losses that these families experience is the unexpected death of a loved one. Men and women who are killed in combat can be harder to cope with because it was unexpected. Death, in any case, is not something that can be easily dealt with or accepted. When a person dies from a prolonged illness; the loss is expected to happen. If a person ...

Sadness is a construct, and as such cannot exist alone; without happiness there is no sadness and vice versa. They are the yin and yang that propels human beings through life, with happiness being the goal, and sadness being the benchmark by which human beings can assess the progress toward their goals. Ancient Philosopher, Aristotle, who studied under Plato, student of Socrates, touts “happiness” as our raison d’être. He is supported by philosophers who taught after he did, by the United States Declaration of Independence which purports the pursuit of Happiness, and by the fleeting American Dream, which ...

Psychology

Bereavement Process Across the Life Span and Five Stages of Dying Introduction Death is an inevitable process of an organism’s life cycle particularly among humans. However, in the human life cycle dying is just one facet of experience as the living left behind by the decease also undergoes a process of bereavement encompassing grief and other emotional manifestation caused by death. In this discussion, bereavement process and its difference with the process of dying across the life span. In addition, the discussion also focuses on identifying the difference between the two concepts by applying the four-component model of ...

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Goals and objectives for the group6 Type of group6 Evaluating success.7 Activities.8 Conclusion10 Introduction Grief is the emotional process an individual goes throughout after the loss of a loved one. Mothers go through an unbearable amount of emotions after losing a child. Considered to be one of the most traumatic experiences an individual can endure, losing a child can have a detrimental impact on a mother. These individuals generally do not consider treatment during the midst of their grief. Most individuals believe their grief is normal under their circumstances. However, the longer the grief lasts the more ...

The Titanic may have been swallowed by the vast seas that fateful night, but the story forever lives on for the survivors and the spectators. We take lessons from that forever tale and still look to the events of the day for guidance and support. One of the areas worth admiring, despite the disaster and the havoc aboard the giant, was the ratio of women and children who managed to walk away from the wreckage. Research shows that 20% of the men while 75 percent of the women were the survivors of the incident. Of the total 109 children ...

Question 1

Which of the articles looks most interesting to you? Response 1 Among the articles, I was interested enough in the article authored by Tricia Serio entitled “The Magic Mix of Mentorship that Worked for Me” . The article clearly discusses mentoring and advising that would assist students in many ways. Through mentoring, the students can achieve their goals to succeed with the guidance and support of the professors. Most mentors focus on the students’ needs, boosting their confidence to perform better and make a difference. Accordingly, mentors encouraged to compete and provided chances, allowed to voice opinions in a safe ...

Kathe Kollwitz was a famous German graphic artist whose son was murdered during the World War I. She used to have leftist and pacifist views and right before the start of the war she predicted the upcoming “blackest despair and dejections” (Kollwitz, 1914, p. 430). She felt sympathetic with the other German women that had to let their children join the German army. When her son was killed, she wrote many times in her diary about her “contradictory position of war” (Kollwitz, 1916, p. 430). Of course, her entries were very emotional and full of mourning, because she found ...

Abstract.

Crisis Counseling is an activity that is directed at restoring normalcy to human psychological feeling. Crises are numerous and they are experienced frequently in everyday life. Since it’s something that is part of human life, finding out a plan that will minimize effects is the most modest thing for people to do. Furthermore, crisis may arise from natural disasters over which human beings have no control over. Perfecting the skills and procedures of reducing the effects of crisis will bring more benefits to humanity.

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A crisis, if looked at from a wider perspective, does not only refer to ...

For long, the war on drugs has been fought through many fronts such as the criminalization of certain drugs, harsh penalties for drug possession and military confrontation. The military is being used to combat drug trafficking since it is now believed that drug trafficking has become a national security issue. This is because drug trafficking has caused widespread corruption, undermining of democracies and has sometimes been used to finance terrorism. Military action mainly targets capturing or killing of leaders of major drug cartels. Military operations have also helped in chasing, tracking and capturing of drug smugglers. Military success can ...

Boundless qualities can be termed as qualities that often connect us as humans to one another as well as the stream of basic goodness. They can also be defined as the basis on a qualitative level for our work in being related with dying (Joan 1). These boundless qualities can either be radiated to oneself, towards anyone one may feel neutral to as well as groups. There are four boundless qualities or abodes that include; lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity. This essay focuses entirely on these four boundless qualities (Joan 1). These qualities often live in one’s ...

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World-wide, adoption has become a widely accepted alternative to birthing children. Throughout the United States, approximately 135,000 children are adopted each year (Claridge, 2014, p. 112). In every adoption case, an adoption triad is developed. This adoption triad consists of the adopted parents, the adopted child and the birth parents. This paper attempts to analyze the grief that is experienced throughout the adoption triad, as well as the different counseling models that can be implemented in order to assist these individuals.

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March (2014) attempted to find the emotions that birth parents feel when women are contacted by their ...

1.0 Observation Having gone through “A Doll House”, there was a personal observation to the effect that the author relies on literary methods to elaborate the broader status of human life in a society. In perspective, these elements of the story seem to either be the traits of the characters, their experiences, or the setting of the story. These experiences are brought out using literal methods to paint a picture in the mind of the reader. 2.0 Premises For instance, the play A Doll's House, the author majorly focuses on the use of secondary characters to dramatically contrast with ...

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Goals and objectives for the group6 Type of group6 Evaluating success.7 Activities.8 Conclusion10 Introduction Grief is the emotional process an individual goes throughout after the loss of a loved one. Mothers go through an unbearable amount of emotions after losing a child. Considered to be one of the most traumatic experiences an individual can endure, losing a child can have a detrimental impact on a mother. These individuals generally do not consider treatment during the midst of their grief. Most individuals believe their grief is normal under their circumstances. However, the longer the grief lasts the more ...