Loss and Bereavement

LOSS AND
BEREAVEMENT

INTRODUCTION
There are many different ways through which the people cope or meet with the loss of their
family and friends and these ways can be both right and even wrong. Death is a natural
phenomenon which will happen in any of the case and there is no other way to stop the people or
the loved ones to stop from dying. The manner in which an individual will deal with the loss of
the loved ones is totally dependent on the thinking and mindset of the person along with religious
and cultural background of the person.
Grief is a defined as the reaction or response of the individual to the loss which has occurred.
The grief occurs when there occurs some terrible event in the life of the individual.
On the other hand, bereavement is defined as the period of time which is taken by the individual
for mourning over the loss which has been occurred because of death or any other person
connected to them.
In contrast to this mourning is referred to as the act through which the person mourns or laments
over the loss of the loved one.
For overcoming with the people who have died, the individual has to find some way which will
divert the mind of the person from the loss and will increase the emotional energy of the person
so that they can overcome the loss. There are three phases which the person passes at time of
mourning which are like urge of getting back the dead person, the second is the sadness and
disorganization and the last one is the reorganization.
Also, there are some stages which person encounter at time of bereavement which are discussed
in the following points connected below-
 The first stage is of denial under which the person denies to accept the loss that the loved
one has died. Here the individual goes numb and is not in the state of understanding
anything and is not in condition of accepting the loss.
 The next stage is the anger which is an emotion of the person in direction of accepting the
loss. The pain of the individual for accepting the loss is shown in form of anger.
 Further the next step is to bargain for the loss. Like the person bargain with the god that if
this situation is rectified then I will do this and other things.