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When most people think about grief, “they go immediately to bereavement loss,” said Litsa Williams, a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of the online support community What’s Your Grief.
“We’ve seen a rise in creative bereavements,” Pitsillides says.
THE WAY WE EXPRESS GRIEF FOR STRANGERS IS CHANGINGTANYA BASUDECEMBER 3, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
If you’re lucky enough to have guaranteed bereavement time, it’s likely still restricted to immediate relatives.
5 BETTER WAYS TO HELP YOUR EMPLOYEES MOURN AT THE OFFICEMARIA ASPANSEPTEMBER 27, 2020FORTUNE
Every single grief expert Fortune spoke to criticized the country’s lack of federally guaranteed bereavement time—and the few days generally provided by the employers who do offer it.
5 BETTER WAYS TO HELP YOUR EMPLOYEES MOURN AT THE OFFICEMARIA ASPANSEPTEMBER 27, 2020FORTUNE
Loss, where she was concerned, involved a permanent and irremediable bereavement—no substitute was conceivable.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
In moments of utter bereavement who has not felt, to the heart's core, the tender attachment of a faithful dog?
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIE
For the moment the child was hers, she suffered pangs of maternal bereavement that seemed to tear her breast and twist her heart.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
I hand on your own advice to you in case you have forgotten it, as I know one is apt to do in seasons of bereavement.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
One outward sign only remained of his late bereavement—his mourning dress.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRAR
Mr John Forster felt his bereavement more deeply than could have been supposed.
NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT
WORDS RELATED TO BEREAVEMENT
- afterlife
- annihilation
- bereavement
- casualty
- cessation
- curtains
- darkness
- decease
- demise
- departure
- destruction
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- end
- ending
- eradication
- eternal rest
- euthanasia
- exit
- expiration
- extermination
- extinction
- fatality
- finis
- finish
- grave
- grim reaper
- heaven
- loss
- mortality
- necrosis
- obliteration
- oblivion
- paradise
- parting
- passing
- passing over
- quietus
- release
- repose
- ruin
- ruination
- silence
- sleep
- termination
- tomb
- afterlife
- annihilation
- bereavement
- casualty
- cessation
- curtains
- darkness
- decease
- demise
- departure
- destruction
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- end
- ending
- eradication
- eternal rest
- euthanasia
- exit
- expiration
- extermination
- extinction
- fatality
- finis
- finish
- grave
- grim reaper
- heaven
- loss
- mortality
- necrosis
- obliteration
- oblivion
- paradise
- parting
- passing
- passing over
- quietus
- release
- repose
- ruin
- ruination
- silence
- sleep
- termination
- tomb
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- care
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- gloom
- grievance
- harassment
- heartache
- heartbreak
- infelicity
- lamentation
- lamenting
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- purgatory
- regret
- remorse
- repining
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vexation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
- accident
- bad luck
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- losing
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
- accident
- bad luck
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- losing
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
- accident
- bad luck
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- losing
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.