Thought for the Week: Bereavement
Jean Harbour shares her personal experience of grief and grieving
My first experience of bereavement was as a child of eight or nine, accompanying my grandmother to the cemetery to put flowers on her late husband’s grave. He had died many years before I was born, so there was no immediate sense of loss for me. I remember walking to the cemetery carrying flowers that we had picked from the garden. I helped to fill the vase with water from a tap that spluttered and cut the stems with a pair of scissors hanging on a chain. When we were satisfied we stood back quietly and then went home while my grandmother gently reminisced.