Iloveocean
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So I have been thinking about this a lot and talking to my friends who actually understand the place I am in and this is what I came up with. In difficult/life-and-death circumstances there are three groups of people. There are the ones who know how to deal with it, the ones who don't know how to deal with it, and the ones who don't want to deal with it.
Group no. 1 is a great blessing to me, I love them, and they are my lifeline. There are very few of them.
With group no. 2 I need to be ready to facilitate their grief and help them grieve my/their loss.
With group no. 3 some of them I need to confront and some of them are just a bunch of jerks who won't care regardless what I do or say so I just need to forgive them and move on.
My question is, does anyone have helpful suggestions about how to deal with group no. 2, any recommendations for books, materials, websites, etc. I just picked up Elizabeth Kubler-Ross On Death and Dying at the library and was wondering what else there might be out there.
Thanks guys and happy New Year!
Group no. 1 is a great blessing to me, I love them, and they are my lifeline. There are very few of them.
With group no. 2 I need to be ready to facilitate their grief and help them grieve my/their loss.
With group no. 3 some of them I need to confront and some of them are just a bunch of jerks who won't care regardless what I do or say so I just need to forgive them and move on.
My question is, does anyone have helpful suggestions about how to deal with group no. 2, any recommendations for books, materials, websites, etc. I just picked up Elizabeth Kubler-Ross On Death and Dying at the library and was wondering what else there might be out there.
Thanks guys and happy New Year!