Ten Beliefs that Make Grief Support Groups Work

Ten Beliefs that Make Grief Support Groups Work | griefministerdotcom:

"Mourning is the outward behavior that is our response to the grief inside us. Grief is a process, a journey, not a one-time event. The work of grief is facilitated when the mourner is given comfort, support, encouragement, time and emotional space to grieve by those around them. Favorable life circumstances and loving support can help move the process along. Mourners can benefit from being with a peer group which has suffered similar emotions and experiences in loss. Mourners will often talk through or work through their concerns and fears if provided a safe, confidential, caring environment. Providing a family systems approach to grief support can be essential to the emotional healing of both grieving adults and children. A person’s feeling on the grief journey are their feelings. It isn’t up to us to talk them out of their feelings or to try to change the way they are feeling."

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More people can ask for help in dying, but very few do

"Anyone who feared that making physician-assisted suicide legal would lead to an onslaught of assisted deaths can relax. A new study led by University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel finds that only a tiny fraction of the dying want help speeding up the process. However, Emanuel is concerned about the reasons people are choosing to die - horrible pain is sixth on the list - and says doctors remain less supportive of assisted suicide than the general public. He said the topic requires more study and that states that have legalized it should be keeping much better records of problems that patients encounter. Oregon, he said, does not consider it a complication if a patient regains consciousness after taking medication meant to kill him. While people die, on average, within 25 minutes after taking a lethal dose, the range extends to more than four days. Emanuel has a long interest in physician-assisted suicide, and he opposes it. He said he purposely included researchers on his team from the Netherlands and Belgium who support it."

More people can ask for help in dying, but very few do

The Amateur's Guide To Death & Dying

 "Our culture is notorious for ignoring and denying death. Consequently, most people live their dying in a vacuum of useful information and meaningful human interaction. Few get the chance to ask: Will my death be good? Will it be wise? Does it even matter? The marginal status our culture assigns to the end of life, with all its fear, anxiety, isolation and anger is inevitably what each of us will inherit in our dying days. The Amateur’s Guide To Death And Dying is a workbook that provides an opportunity to break free from the painful silence our culture imposes on death talk. "

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How Should We Live This Moment

North East Ambulance Service offers end-of-life help - BBC News

Helping people get where they want to go -- an ambulance service will take people to hospice, if that is what they prefer, freeing up resources to be where they are most needed and helping people plan their end of life service needs.


"North East Ambulance Service's (NEAS) End of Life Transport scheme also helps patients plan where they want to go, such as a hospice, care unit, or home. ..Dedicated ambulances and specialist technicians, trained in end-of-life care, will operate the service..."Rather than detracting from the frontline, this service actually supports it by reducing the number of last minute calls to 999, which would have resulted in an emergency ambulance and where a patient would have been taken to hospital." A pilot scheme run from October 2015 to March 2016 was used by 1,037 people, with the majority taken from hospital to their home, and of those collected from home, almost half went to a hospice."

North East Ambulance Service offers end-of-life help - BBC News:

End of Life Conversations Can Transform Rest of Life Choices

From Rabbi Jack Moline: " In the course of pleading with the people in front of me to spare their loved ones the anguish of sussing out their end-of-life desires from medical directives and powers of attorney, I recreated a conversation with my own patient and loving family about what would make my life worth continuing in a final decline. I can say confidently it changed my life; I have been told that at least some others felt the same. "


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64 Myths About Grief

Grief doesn't follow a timeline.  And you never refer to the same "normal."

"sometimes WE have unrealistic expectations because of these myths.  So today we are setting out to dispel the myths in one of our favorite types of post – a 64-things post!  64 myths about grief, to be exact."

What's your grief?