ABSTRACT

Two recently published works, After Suicide by Samuel E. Wallace [1] and The First Year of Bereavement by Ira 0. Click, Robert S. Weiss, and C. Murray Parkes [2], provide an opportunity to explore the way in which bereavement experiences are shaped by differences in cause of death, and/or by anticipation of death. Wallace examined bereavement reactions from suicide, while Glick, Weiss, and Parkes were concerned with bereavement which follows natural death and accidents.