If You’re Dealing with Complicated Grief, Seek First Your Therapist, Not Your Pastor

Ernest Becker proposes that depressed individuals (specifically those depressed from death) suffer both doubt in their faith and doubt their value within their worldview.  In other words, grieving people often doubt their religion and the God of their religion. Kenneth Doka suggests that “one of the most significant tasks in grief is to reconstruct faith […]

Grandma Gets the Funeral She Wants

After Georgina Chervony Lloren died of natural causes on Sunday at 80, her wake on Monday went just as she imagined: Her body was propped up on her red-cushioned rocking chair, surrounded by plants and flowers, wearing her wedding gown from her second marriage 32 years ago.  Via NICK KIRKPATRICK So, this is becoming a trend.  Looks like […]

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