grieving someone who is still alive - by sundus
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what happens when the person we are mourning is still very much alive—perhaps even still in our lives?
Grief is a complex emotion to navigate, but there is some comfort in the fact that it is inevitable. We will all one day have to mourn the death of a loved one, and others will do the same for us. But what happens when the person we are mourning is still very much alive—perhaps even still in our lives? I think about this type of grief a lot. This emotion is far from foreign to me, and as I grow older, I’m realizing that more and more people have experienced it or are currently going through it as well. (I am once again reminded here that we are not alone in these experiences, finding both…
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