Authors

Amparo Alonso Sisternes, Mª José Pardo Celada, Sara Mulero Martí

Position

Alumnas de la Escuela de Enfermería “La Fe”, Valencia.

Contact email: mjopace@hotmail.com

Abstract

In life there are few absolute truths and death is one of them. Surely this is the reason that when a person dies, those who have lived near them experience difficult emotional situations, which usually are called the grieving process.
Our society lives turning a blind eye to death. Faced with the loss of a loved one, it encourages us to forget, to replace them immediately, not to feel, not to express grief in public, not to disturb others with our feelings.
Because of these attitudes, more and more people do not cope in a healthy way the death of a loved one and fail to properly complete the grieving process.
We can define grief as the normal adaptive response that an individual or family experiences after a loss or emotional separation (person, object, function, status, relationship...).

Keywords:

death; griefdysfunctional grieving

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