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Bereavement Bereavement
BEREAVEMENT For older Americans, the loss of a loved one is a relatively common occurrence, yet it is often severely distressing and can have dire implications for mental and physical health. Over two million people die in the United States each year. Each of those deaths leaves behind a wake of... Read more
Mourning Mourning
M OURNING The term mourningis probably the single most inconsistently used term in thanatology. Traditionally it has been used to refer to the cultural and/or public display of grief through one's behaviors. This usage focuses on mourning as a vehicle for... Read more
William Roy William Roy
Roy, William (1911-1977) Pseudonym of William George Holroyd Plowright, a notorious mediumistic fraud in British Spiritualist history. He boasted that he had earned £50,000 by cheating the bereaved and others who attended his fraudulent séances. He even made money out of publishing his... Read more
shock shock
shock has many meanings in common usage. Most often it refers to a sudden mental or emotional experience ranging from a trivial unpleasant surprise to the deep disturbance of personal disaster or bereavement; ‘shell-shock’ refers to distress and disturbed behaviour in the aftermath of... Read more
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (1901-9), b. New York City. Early Life and Political Posts Of a prosperous and distinguished family, Theodore Roosevelt was educated by private tutors and traveled widely. He was a delicate youth, and his determined efforts to... Read more

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Blair, Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Blair, Robert (1699–1746), published in 1743 The Grave, a didactic poem of the graveyard school, consisting of some 800 lines of blank verse. It celebrates the horrors of death, the solitude of the tomb, the pains of bereavement. It was illustrated by Blake.
shock
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...mental or emotional experience ranging from a trivial unpleasant surprise to the deep disturbance of personal disaster or bereavement; ‘shell-shock’ refers to distress and disturbed behaviour in the aftermath of battle. When the media report someone...
heart, broken
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...severe grief have been subjects of constant scrutiny, from Roberrt Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–51) to present-day medical research on bereavement and depression. Carolyn D. Williams
corpse
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...the humanity and personality of the dead, embodied in the transformed body of the dead person; horror of death, dread of bereavement, or terror of the likelihood of further deaths or of haunting.These lay perceptions have medical parallels. The poet...
Hill, Susan Elizabeth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...1971); The Birds of Night (1972), which won the Whitbread Award; and In the Springtime of the Year (1974), about bereavement. The Woman in Black (1983) was a successful recreation of the ambience of the Victorian ghost story, later adapted for...
abortion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...associated fear and anxiety caused by the pain and bleeding and the uncertainty as to the cause. Reaction to abortion as a bereavement means that women require to grieve after the event. Often the intensity of the emotional reaction is not appreciated by...
Daisy Mayme
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...married sisters. When one of his sisters dies, he takes her daughter May ( Madge Evans) to Atlantic City to recover from her bereavement. To the dismay of Mettinger's surviving sisters, Olly Kipax ( Josephine Hull) and Laura Fenner ( Alma Kruger), he...
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...1836 he began his many influential years of teaching at Harvard.His prose romance Hyperion (1839), a product of his bereavement after the death of his first wife in 1835, is the tale of a young man who seeks to forget sorrow in travel; Voices of the...

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bereavement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing bereavement (bi-reev-mĕnt) n. the feelings that arise as the result of being deprived, especially of a relation, friend, or other loved one through death but also of previous good health. No time limit can be put on the period of bereavement.
suffering
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...is visited upon the people of God because of their faith (as Jews or Christians). The first category embraces illness, bereavement, anxiety, depression; the second is caused by persecution or by personal discipline. Several OT texts suggest that some...

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bereavement
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English bereavement • noun 1. sympathize with her in her bereavementsynonyms: loss, deprivation, dispossession.See bereave. 2. a series of family bereavementssynonyms: death, loss, passing, demise.
loss
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...dropping, forgetting. 2. loss of blood/life/prestige/moneysynonyms: losing, deprivation, privation, forfeiture, bereavement, disappearance, waste, squandering, dissipation. 3. families/firms suffering losssynonyms: deprivation, privation...
grief
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...heartbreak, agony, torment, affliction, suffering, woe, desolation, dejection, despair; mourning, mournfulness, bereavement, lamentation; literary dolor, dole.antonym: joy. 2. informal the police gave me a lot of grief synonyms: trouble...

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Bereavement airfares can reduce financial burdens
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...largest U.S. passenger airlines offer bereavement fares for travel within North America...startled to discover that their emergency bereavement fare to Minneapolis or Pittsburgh or...airlines say they are now setting their bereavement and medical-emergency rates at about...
Bereavement: Implications for health visiting practice
Magazine article from: Community Practitioner ...role for health visitors in offering bereavement services for this client group, which...1 Morbidity related to the stress of bereavement has implications for primary health...and social isolation.2 The risk of bereavement inevitably increases with advancing...
Understanding bereavement, grief, and mourning: implications for donation and...
Magazine article from: Progress in Transplantation ...article surveys recent literature on bereavement, grief, and mourning. It offers a...date education and knowledge about bereavement, grief, and mourning to supplement...inevitably also work in the larger arena of bereavement. They interact in situations with families...
Last rites for bereavement fare: Airlines say there are better ways to get...
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Bereavement airfares -- those discounted tickets...dropped so low in recent years, the bereavement deals are no longer needed. Indeed...Airlines replaced its old 50 percent bereavement discount on full-fare tickets with...
Improvements announced to Bereavement benefit time limits.
M2 Presswire ...Government: Improvements announced to Bereavement benefit time limits (C)1994-2002...Improvements to the time limit for claiming Bereavement Payment were announced today by Work...will now have up to 12 months to claim Bereavement Payment instead of the current three...
How to cope with bereavement at work; A WARWICKSHIRE PART-TIME PRIEST HAS PUT...
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) ...DAVID CHARLES-EDWARDS knows about bereavement. He knows that everyone feels things...counsellor in the field of death and bereavement at work. Mr Charles-Edwards has been...Clifton and Newton. His own experience of bereavement came when in 1966 he lost his first...
Bereavement fares aren't always least expensive
Newspaper article from: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) ...that's why airlines introduced "bereavement" or "compassionate" fares -- reasonably...many other niceties of air travel, bereavement fares aren't what they used to be...tickets. She said that she asked for a "bereavement" fare, but claimed the airline did...
BEREAVEMENT: A D.I.S.C. ANALYSIS
Magazine article from: Behavior and Social Issues ABSTRACT: Theories of bereavement abound. The endeavour to understand...process orientated explorations of bereavement. What has been missing in most...analysis of the context within which bereavement behaviours occur. This paper outlines...
Spiritual evolution of bereavement counselors: an exploratory qualitative...
Magazine article from: Counseling and Values ...This article draws from a phenomenological study on the experience of being a bereavement counselor, Ten bereavement counselors shared their experiences in bereavement counseling. Spiritual and emotional aspects of bereavement counseling with...
Bereavement debriefing sessions: an intervention to support health care...
Magazine article from: Pediatric Nursing ...article focuses on one intervention--bereavement debriefing sessions--which are specifically...by the Education Development Center, bereavement debriefing sessions have continued as...experiences with colleagues. Offering bereavement debriefing sessions is just one ...

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