Research Paper on:
Death, the Process of Grieving, and Bereavement Counseling

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A personal loss can dramatically influence an individuals emotion and behavior. This is particularly true when the loss involves the death of a  loved one. Grief, bereavement, and mourning are natural components of the months and even years which follow. This process is evolutionary in nature, however, in that the degree  of emotion and the need to acknowledge that emotion gradually eases somewhat over time. It can be contended, in fact that:  Grief is a necessary and evolutionary process for recovery following a personal loss, there are many channels that facilitate and aid this healthy  recovery. Death, of course, is something that we all must personally face. Dealing with  the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the fact of our own mortality. This is particularly true when we lose a loved  one to a violent act such as homicide. While natural death leaves grieving loved ones, homicide almost always leaves secondary victims of the crime. Those victims are  the loved ones of the murder victim and even remote acquaintances. Each will undergo a grieving process, the intensity and degree of which is not controlled only by their  relative closeness to the victim but also by the way in which they deal with their grief. The process of grieving  is one which comes complete with an assortment of terms which are utilized to describe it. Those who are left behind after a personal loss suffer a period of