Accommodating loss

The ebb and flow of relationships after death

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the continuing relationship we have with people after they die. My writing is based on 12 years' experience of working with grieving people, three years of that time concentrated in a hospice. It is also founded in my own experience of grief. The paper emphasises that both in working with others and in our own grief our responses are personal and individual. Because we are all unique, there is no right or wrong way to grieve, just different ways. That is what our grieving clients need to hear.