Bereavement - Star Cherish

Thinking about dying can spur you to live a better life

By DATUK DR ANDREW MOHANRAJ Queen Elizabeth II’s death was reported to have been communicated internally in one coded phrase: “London Bridge is down.” It is said that from that momen...

Surviving the holidays

Bereavement, Grief Management

When we have lost a loved one, the festive holidays are often a time we would rather skip as so many things will remind us that someone is missing and that, in turn, hurts. We may feel like just going...

Support for the dying

Bereavement, Funeral Planning, Will Writing

If the patient whom we care for dies unexpectedly, we are devastated. Openly discussing the possibility of death is less emotionally difficult when the critically sick person is still able to talk abo...

Reaching out to bereaved children

Bereavement, Grief Management

When we reach out to bereaved parents, we must not neglect their children. Bereaved children also mourn and they need our attention to help them work through their grief. Infants of less than two y...

Moving on in grief

Bereavement, Grief Management

Bereavement refers to the loss of a loved one while grief is our reaction to that loss. Grief is intense anguish or acute sorrow which can be so painful that the grieving person often looks for ways t...

Datuk Freddy Chan says that peace of mind for family of the deceased is of utmost importance to Nirvana.

Peace after bereavement

Bereavement, Funeral, Funeral Etiquette

The tension is palpable in the lift that Datuk Freddy Chan and I share with a grief-stricken Chinese family at the Nirvana Memorial Center in Sungai Besi, in Kuala Lumpur. The household head – a mi...

Dan and Cindi Lowden mourn their son, Jake Hudak, whose loss they are struggling to come to terms with. Photos: TNS

Life of parents after the death of a child

Bereavement

Spouses who have lost their partners are widows and widowers. Children who have lost their parents are orphans. But there is no term to describe a parent who has lost a child. Locally, some of thos...

Looking for consolation

Bereavement

No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...

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