Grief is not a disorder but an appropriate response to the destruction of something or someone central to one's world — and what can be lost is as wide as what people love. Every culture has developed rituals, frameworks, and philosophies for moving through loss, and every tradition agrees that grief resisted is grief prolonged. This life area covers the grief of death but also the losses of relationship, identity, health, and dreams — and the work of rebuilding a life after rupture.
Hypatia