Bereavement - Dealing with Grief

Excerpted from 'And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart: Moving from Despair to Meaning After the Death of a Child' by Charlotte M. Mathes.

Grief is a natural and normal response to significant loss, let yourself experience it. Let your grief chart its own course.

Readers share stories about hosting or participating in butterfly release ceremonies.

Book review: After the Darkest Hour How Suffering Begins the Journey to Wisdom

A transformational story of divine healing by Tony Geron.

Excerpt from the book Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart by Stephen Levine

The leading causes of death among adults over the age of 65 are also the among most common causes of death among the population as a whole. Many of these conditions are also highly preventable and treatable

Mary Maddux shares her thoughts on the topic of terminally of choosing death by refusal of food and drink. Maddux's 93 year old ailing mother made this decision for her transition.

Many people have a funeral or memorial service for their lost pet. If you do, you may want to use one of these prayers as part of your service.

I believe that the soul transits to another place where it lives on. Communications from the dead often occur to help us through our grief process. The messages conveyed are that the person is not truly gone, merely somewhere else. And that this somewhere else is a happier and healthier place for them. It is a tremendous healing gift to receive this type of comforting communication.

From your About.com Guide - Grief is a painful emotional hurt that can be slow to heal.

From Your About.com Guide to Death and Dying - Resourceful site that covers all aspects of death and dying guided by Angela Morrow, RN.

Have you ever wondered why lawns in cemeteries are so carefully manicured -- let alone why the graves are decorated with living flowers?

From Your About.com Guide - Personal empty nest experiences and concerns regarding stresses of separation.

Fast growwing online community for all bereaved with 25 chatrooms - founded by widows and widowers.

The Labyrinth Readers Society, founded in 1974, provides the service of reading for those who are dead or dying. The Labyrinth Readers Society offers Readers courses and Terminal Midwifery workshops.

Celia Ryan offers us the opportunity to acknowledge our major and unremarkable lifetime losses in a scripted timeline format.

New York based wellness center offering workshops on grief and bereavement.

This page is a place that men or women can honor the person in their life who died by writing about a part of their own grief and healing.