Option 3 – Grief
Emma and Joel had been married for 63 years and were very dependent on each other for companionship and love. Several years ago Emma had a stroke, and Joel did his best to take care of her at home. Recently, she had another stroke and ended up in a convalescent hospital, where she lived only 6 weeks before she passed away. Their children Cass and Tim are really worried about their father because he seems so lethargic and doesn’t want to visit when they come over to see him. He refuses to go out to lunch with them, and his appetite seems almost nonexistent. Cass is feeling the loss of her mom a lot, but she isn’t having that reaction at all. Tim is sorry that his mom passed away, but he feels that he really lost her several years ago because she was never the same after the stroke. Joel’s children think that they should take him to the doctor to get a checkup. Their aunt, Bernice, heard about this and told Cass and Tim that they needed to understand more about grieving and the bereavement process and the steps and reactions people had when losing a loved one. She suggested they go to a grief group or at least look up some information on the Web. Cass and Tim took her advice and decided to surf the Web first, where they found the following Web site: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/the-5-stages-of-loss-and
Discuss the 5 Stages of Loss, https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/
Bereavement Symptoms https://psychcentral.com/disorders/bereavement-symptoms/
Preparing for Grief https://psychcentral.com/lib/preparing-for-grief/
7 Tips to Help In Your Grief https://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2009/02/feeling-grief-means-being-alive-7-tips-to-help/
Grief & Healing https://psychcentral.com/lib/grief-healing-and-the-one-to-two-year-myth/
Coping https://psychcentral.com/lib/on-grief-loss-and-coping/
Relate how Joel’s reaction to Emma’s death fit (or did not fit) within these steps or reactions to the loss of a loved one. Would your text agree? Should people talk more about the grief process; preparing for it and just have the discussion about death? Why or why not?
