Grieving

4 Jun 2015 | by Judy Clinton

Judy Clinton writes about the challenges presented by grief

'When we are submerged, others, who are not in our darkness at the time, can hold us tenderly in the Light.' | Photo: Morgan Paul / flickr CC.

One of the certain things in life is death: the death of everyone and everything that we love and value, either because they die, or we do. This stark fact is inescapable. It is also inescapable that we will feel pain, of varying degrees, with each of these losses. I therefore find it bizarre – as well as down right wrong – that we are not taught, or shown, how to grieve well. It seems to me that it should be an important part of our education. It generally isn’t and I believe that its absence is responsible for any number of our individual and collective ills.

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