ABSTRACT
Almost any scholarship on death and bereavement could be said to be scholarship on spirituality, for the spirit is what is left when the body and mind are gone. But death educators need the lives of real people facing death in a concrete way to focus the issues for them. This chapter describes the spiritual aspects of the resolution of grief by examining the lives of bereaved parents as they resolved their grief. Because of the close association between the researcher and the group, the understandings that emerged from the study are, in reality, collaborations between the bereaved parents, who were the insiders, and the researcher, the outsider. It is difficult to define the word spiritual, because it so often refers to that which is beyond words. It has become common of late to differentiate spiritual from religious.
