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Grief & bereavement support
Grief is personal and social. These articles explore accompaniment, rituals, children in grief, and saying goodbye — from practice, research, and lived experience.
26 articles
What do we already know, what can we already do?
What do we already know, what can we already do? Yesterday evening I sat with fifteen strangers in a large garden at the edge of the city under a cherry tree. The sun dazzled me and burned into my ski
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Star children
Star children Dear parents, grandparents, siblings, godparents and friends, Your child may have been stillborn or may have had to leave this world early because of illness. Perhaps you have just recei
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Confetti & tears
Confetti & tears In a strange way, we are happy. Our daughter was able to die without fear, without pain, at home with us. It tears me apart to write this line. And yet it is true. To lose a child
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Cranio-sacral grief work
Cranio-sacral grief work Cranio-sacral grief work is a form of bodywork that originally emerged from cranio-sacral therapy. CST developed out of osteopathy and is sometimes called the little sister of
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Working with death
Working with death By Juliane Uhl For five years, she has worked with coffins, urns, cremation culture, funeral practices and the social handling of death. She asks whether this makes her an expert, a
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Small children – big feelings
Small children – big feelings By Anja Gehrke-Huy Yet children encounter death in stories, nature, community life and sometimes within the family. Especially in preschool and primary-school age, they o
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Trusting children to grieve
Trusting children to grieve Accompanying children in their grief By Anja Gehrke-Huy As a social educator and companion for dying and grieving people, she is less concerned with whether to speak with c
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Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death
Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death No one can answer from personal experience, because when I am dead the “I” whose death is in question is no longer there. Yet death is something people think ab
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Cartoons on dying, death and grief
Cartoons on dying, death and grief Exhibition catalogue “SIE hat mir der Himmel geschickt!” The Hospiz-Akademie Bamberg celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2012 and, together with the hospice associat
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Wenn Kinderbücher vom Tod erzählen
Grief, dying and death - gentle images, charming little animals and bright colours. Do these things belong together? Is it appropriate? Meaningful, even necessary? German scholar Susanne Beck has exam
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End-of-life accompaniment in old age: family-practice palliative medicine in a team
End-of-life accompaniment in old age: family-practice palliative medicine in a team Author: Dr. med. Peter Landendörfer – specialist in general medicine Accompanying dying patients is as old and as se
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