ABSTRACT
It has been said, "Bereavement is another crisis in the life of every person who takes the risk of loving someone other than himself."
The following practical definition helps to explain its nature. Grief is an emotional state occasioned by separation from a loved person or a loved object. Richard McKay, a former associate, has put it this way: "Grief is interrupted love." It brings a heaviness or heavy feeling following a broken relationship with a person, place, or thing. Grief is characterized by loneliness, helplessness, frustration, regret, and finality. It both leads to and needs appropriate expression. As my neighbor, Tom, has put it, "Grief will not kill you; you only wish it would."
