An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when
the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the
anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in
their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to
redress wrongs in themselves or in the relationships that death has
shaken and upset. In both collective and individual responses to
the trauma of encountering death, we witness efforts to counter the
misfortune and to explain the meaning of the loss, to turn memory
into blessing, to reconcile life with death, to regenerate life,
and redeem both the bereaved and the dead.
Sometimes loss may transform the bereaved in ways that lead to
growth and maturity; other times a loss leads to unremitting anger
or melancholia. There may be a variety of spiritual expressions
that the bereaved experience in their time of loss, but there
appears to be some common elements in all of them. Overtime,
survivors' feelings are transformed into growing exploration of the
spiritual, a profound sense of rebirth, newfound feelings of
self-mastery or confidence, and a deeply held conviction that "life
goes on."
The contributions to this volume are based on a conference held
in New York on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001.
Contributors include Peter Metcalf, Robert Jay Lifton, Ilana
Harlow, Robert A. Neimeyer, Samuel Heilman, and Neil Gillman. This
sensitive and heartfelt volume relates specifically to issues of
death, bereavement, and mourning in the aftermath of the attack on
the World Trade Center, but the applications to other individual
and catastrophic events is obvious. The contributions do not simply
explore how people deal with bereavement or are psychologically
affected by extreme grief: they address how people can try to find
meaning in tragedy and loss, and strive to help restore order in
the wake of chaos. The multidisciplinary perspectives include those
of anthropology, psychology, theology, social work, and art.
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