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How to Cope with Sudden Death (Popularity:  )
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Are you completely overwhelmed with the unexpected death of a loved one? Frozen in time? Numb? Not knowing where to turn? All of this and more occurs every day and it can only be described with one word: Normal. But whether normal or not, its effect is chilling, something that no one who has never had the experience, can fathom.
I've made that trip with my wife, so I speak from ...
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Widowed Persons And Some Stigma They Suffer (Popularity: )
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When I became a widow, I thought I had the grieving thing already whipped. We both knew my husband was dieing and would not be around for long once he was put into the Hospice Program. He had been hospitalized 12 different times during his 8 years on oxygen. His lung disease, diabetes and heart disease all had an equal chance of taking him away. We had talks about how ...
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How to Reduce the Stress of Grieving (Popularity: )
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Although loss and the resulting grief is a condition of existence, few realize that it takes a devastating physical toll on the mourner. This is born out by the fact that many who are suffering through a divorce or the death of a loved one often come down with a cold or flu symptoms, or end up with severe headaches or stomach upsets.
For over 40 years I have taught that ...
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Widowed, Alone, Lonely, Grieving: Picking At Old Scabs? (Popularity: )
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What did you mom tell you about picking at scabs?
"Don't do that, you will only make your sore worse!" Was mom right about the scab picking. "If you pull off the scab, you may have a scar forever." Maybe she was right.
What does all this junk talk have to do with being lonely? Well, we all do it, we pick at our painful parts. We cry about how our life ...
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Why Did My Child Die (Popularity: )
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As the sun rose over the ocean a gentle breeze blew awakening my senses to the peace of my surroundings. My thoughts quieted for a moment as my mind took in the beauty of the tiny island I was vacationing on.
I wished that every day could begin like this day. A beginning when everyone around was not occupied with work or the tragedy of life. A day where simple faith ...
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Gerald Ford and James Brown: We Hardly Knew Ye (Popularity: )
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I find it fascinating that our nation is mourning two famous individuals whom hardly anybody knew. People all across America are talking about President Ford and James Brown in glowing and endearing terms, almost as if the two of them had been our next-door neighbors. Only they weren’t, but it doesn’t seem to matter. We mourn their deaths because both of them were important to us as a nation. President ...
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Why Did President Ford Pardon Richard Nixon - Because Forgiveness Takes Strength (Popularity: )
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When Gerald Ford became the first un-elected President of the United States, he brought with him the hopes and dreams of the American people, who were tired of hearing about Watergate, and who were filled with humiliation and over the break-ins and lies and excuses they had heard from their elected officials. Most Americans wanted to see President Richard Nixon punished--for what he had done, and for what he had ...
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For Widows Only -- Who We Are (Popularity: )
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We are women left.
We experienced the best of times; The worst of times. And survived.
We discovered the meaning of life -- Nothing like the loss of a spouse to wake us up to that.
We gained some; We lost some -- Friends and pounds.
We had friends run out on us. We understood they just couldn't take it. At least, we tried to.
We lost appetites, and we lost weight. And in the ...
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For Widows Only --What We Want/What We Don't Want (Popularity: )
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We want our husbands back.
We don't want your husband, your son, your father, your grandfather, or your cousin's next door neighbor's husband, her son, her father, or her grandfather.
If we ask the simple question, "how is he doing" That's all we mean. We may not want to be alone, but we never want to wreck a home.
We want our lives back.
We want what we can't have; can never have again.
We ...
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For the New Widow -- What We Worry About (Popularity: )
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We are alone. And we worry about that. We worry we will die alone.
We buried our life partner. And now we worry about who will bury us? Who will walk our dogs, who will feed our cats when we're gone?
We don't worry about who will spend our money. Instead, we worry we will be homeless -- We'll push a grocery cart with a shopping bag filled with our belongings - ...
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