ABSTRACT
In families that lost someone in the 9/11 disaster, individual grieving is entangled in family dynamics that have been profoundly impacted by the loss. Grieving people are often not in a good place to help other grieving people. Grieving people often have trouble carrying out the everyday routines of life. For families and individuals grieving a 9/11 loss, grief is a journey that cannot be mapped out in advance, and it is not, for major losses, a journey that is likely ever to have an end. For anyone in a grieving family, the journey of grieving requires things from other family members. One of the most important processes in family bereavement is "family meaning making". It is about making sense of the death, the many losses associated with the death, what may have caused the death, what has been going on in the family as a result of the death, individual and family grieving, and the future.
