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I guess I'm wondering if it was different when it was unusual for a family to have no losses at all. If there was less "we are alone in this grief". It saddens me when we seem as a society to add extra burdens to the grieving when they don't need that at all.
Some things that seemed to be pretty common expressions of grief in the past are seen as macabre today and I wonder how much of "kids just always outlive their parents" plays into that compared to back when I don't think people could say that as the reality was just so different.
When did our culture get so grief adverse and lack all empathy fro those that have grief? I just wonder how much certain beliefs play into that. I still have problems understanding how anyone gets to their thirties without ever having been to a funeral. I'm glad my parents took me along to funerals. How else do you learn how to be with the grief of others if you avoid it completely? Eventually you will have grief, it is just part of life, IMO.
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