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What is grief?
How does grief feel?
How long does grief last?
How will I know when I'm done grieving?
Grief is a normal, healthy response to
loss. One of the greatest losses that can occur is the
death of someone you love. Healing from a loss involves
coming to terms with the loss and the meaning of the
loss in your life.
The following information addresses the
wide variety of situations involving grief related to
death. If you are bereaved and want to speak with
someone immediately, contact a hospice in your community
and ask to speak with the bereavement coordinator or
social worker.
Idaho Grief and Loss Support Meeting Schedule
If you offer grief and loss support in
Idaho and would like to have contact information placed
on this schedule please contact Jill Darrington, A Better Way Coaliton.
With Eyes Open
Hosted by well-known journalist Ray
Suarez, four half-hour companion shows to the Bill
Moyers special mentioned above featured family members,
caregivers and loved ones in honest discussions about
caregiving, grief, difficult decisions and what kind of
afterlife might lie beyond death. The website includes
the transcripts for all programs as well as guides for
teachers and parents who wish to discuss these topics
with family members or in the classroom.
Center for Loss and Life Transitions
We publish
books, articles and other resources to help people who
are grieving. We are also an educational and training
center for bereavement caregivers. If you are grieving
or want to help others in grief, we invite you to
explore our website.
Coping with Loss: Guide to Grieving and Bereavement
Loss is a part of everyone's life. It is
not the event itself—the type of loss—that determines
one's response to it. Each person reacts to a loss in
his or her own way. How we respond to a particular loss
is influenced by a combination of factors.
Loss, Grief, and Bereavement, For Patients, Health
Care Professionals and En Español. The passage from the
final stage of cancer to the death of a loved one is
different for everyone. This summary describes loss,
grief, and bereavement; the stages of grief; and methods
for coping with grief. This summary also includes
sections on children and grief.
The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
This website, which accompanies the
National Public Radio series of the same name, offers
transcripts from the broadcasts, a collection of poems,
essays and other readings and photographs, lists of
grief and illness-related resources and an opportunity
for visitors to relate stories of their own grief
experiences.
Loss, Grief and Bereavement Resources
Send your favorite sites to
Jill Darrington, A Better Way Coalition.
If you find a dead site - let us know!
Overview
Grieving: Facing Illness, Death and Other Losses,
Symptoms and dealing with loss.
Also available in: Spanish
Helping Yourself through Grief, Grief is exhausting,
and it is important to continue your daily health
routines.
How to Deal with Grief, How does grief differ from
depression?
Diagnosis/Symptoms
You Know You Are Getting Better When... Clues that
will help you to see that you are beginning to work
through your grief.
Specific Conditions
Loss, Grief, and Bereavement (PDQ), The terms grief,
bereavement, and mourning are often used in place of
each other, but they have different meanings. Also
available in: Spanish
Caring for Someone with Dementia, If someone close
to you develops dementia you are likely to experience
feelings of grief and bereavement as the illness
progresses, not just in the period after their death.
Related Issues
Bereaved Employee: Returning to Work, Thinking ahead
will make your return to work easier and less painful.
Funerals and Memorials: A Part of Recovery,
Important elements in most funerals and memorials.
Helping a Grieving Parent, How can you comfort your
surviving parent while dealing with your own loss?
Helping Your Bereaved Friend, There is so much to do
after a death, but ordinary, practical help is needed
first.
On Being Alone: A Guide for the Newly Widowed, The
death of a spouse is one of life's most profound losses.
Parents Who Are Now Childless, When a parent faces
the death of an only child, the only surviving child, or
all children, bereavement is compounded by additional
issues that ultimately must be resolved if healing is to
occur.
Reactions to Sudden or Traumatic Loss, Because an
event has occurred that is beyond one's control, people
feel out of control.
When a Co-Worker Is Grieving the Death of a Child,
Actively grieving people experience pain, confusion,
lack of concentration, and isolation. Those surrounding
them often express frustration and a sense of
helplessness, which may, in time, turn to annoyance if
the grieving “takes too long.” Yet, the disorientation
of grief lasts far longer than our society recognizes.
When an Employee is Grieving the Death of a Child,
Research shows that there may be a loss of productivity
and rise in accident rates among employees suffering
from emotional stress. An employee whose child has died
may…
Writing a Condolence Note, It is a good idea to
refrain from using some of the common clichés.
Directories
Community Resources, Most public libraries have
books under the topics of bereavement, death, widowhood
or family.
Children
Death of an Adult Child, Many parents have observed
that their relationship with their adult child had
evolved into one of friendship. Not only do they feel
they have lost their child—they have lost a friend,
often their best friend, as well.
Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families,
Within each of us is the capacity to heal.
Grief of Stepparents When a Child Dies, The length
and quality of the marriage and the nature of the
biological parent–child relationship play a primary role
in the grief that follows.
How to Help Your Child Deal with Death, Here are
some tips for helping kids cope with death - and at the
same time teaching them to cherish life. Also available
in: Spanish
Someone in My Friend's Family Died - What Should I Do?
Don't be surprised if your friend doesn't want to talk.
Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Infant Death, No matter
what age, your child was and is a part of you, and when
your baby dies, so did many of your hopes and dreams for
the future. Also available in: Spanish
Surviving Your Child's Suicide, The suicide of a
child of any age presents unique circumstances that
intensify and prolong the mourning of parents and family
members.
Ways Parents Can Cope, It is most important to be
gentle and kind to yourself. Have patience with your
grief.
Teenagers
Grieving Teen, While people in all age groups
struggle with such losses, teenagers face particularly
painful adjustments following the death of a loved one.
Someone I Know Has Died. What Should I Do? All of
these feelings and reactions are OK - but what can
people do to get through them? Also available in:
Spanish
What Do You Tell Children? In most families, parents
don't think about explaining death to their children
until a relative dies.
When a Brother or Sister Dies, In a world suddenly
gone crazy, how can you keep your balance? Also
available in:
Spanish
Seniors
Understanding Grief: When a Grandchild Dies, When a
grandchild dies, the grief of grandparents is
complicated.
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