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Grief
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, (2003) by ROBERT KASTENBAUM, KENNETH J. DOKA, JOAN BEDER, REIKO SCHWAB, KENNETH J. DOKA, REIKO SCHWAB, KENNETH J. DOKA, NORMAN L. FARBEROW, MARGARET STROEBE, WOLFGANG STROEBE, HENK SCHUT, LILLIAN M. RANGE
A public ritual such as a funeral or memorial can offer powerful closure for traumatic grief. Other approaches include letter writing to the deceased person and/or empty chair work—going through an exercise in which one imagines the deceased person to be sitting beside him or her in an empty chair, talking to the person as if they were still alive.
Several useful procedures revolve around the concept of forgiveness for both self and others.
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