COPING WITH BEREAVEMENT

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PREFACE

Our understanding of mortality and our hope of resurrection should make the falling asleep of a loved one easier to bear. Yet, however great our faith, mourning is a natural and necessary process. None of us can be certain how we shall respond when the day of parting comes: the grief of one person may seem inconsolable; in another the emotions are controlled and within hours or days they appear to be at peace. And neither is necessarily weaker, or stronger, than the other: each one must mourn in his or her own way.

Because death affects us all so differently, there can be no easy answers to the problems of coping with bereavement. But there are some basic principle sand Sister Joan Thomas, drawing from her own experience and that of fathers, offers in these pages many valuable suggestions. Writing sensitively, yet without sentimentality, she considers not just the emotions of the first few moments but the lasting effects of loneliness and loss

This short work has a dual aim: to assist the bereaved themselves and to counsel those who help them. How often does it happen that, for example, a newly widowed sister is smothered with attention the in the early days - and then left to fend for herself? Until the day of resurrection the sense of emptiness remains and the need for kindly help continues. There are wise words for every reader here. There are also realistic hints about the ways in which the elderly may prepare themselves for the separation which inevitably must come.

The author is conscious that her thoughts have concentrated particularly on the elderly brother or sister who loses a life-partner. The needs of the younger parent left to raise a family; the grief of a couple who lose a child; the sadness of a single sister bereft of a companion - indeed the loss of any close relative or friend - all these call for special care. The practical issues are, however, similar and these articles , which helped many when they first appeared in The Christadelphian in 1981/2, will in booklet form provide a permanent source of comfort; a valuable guide to that time of sorrow - and subsequent healing - which all. sooner or later, have to face.

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