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Anticipatory grief refers to a feeling of grief occurring before an impending loss. Typically, the impending loss is the death of someone close due to illness. This can be experienced by dying individuals themselves [1] and can also be felt due to non-death-related losses like a pending divorce, company downsizing, or war.
Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents with children, i.e. "The dog went to live on a farm." Lose one's life [1] To die in an accident or violent event Neutral Lost To die in an accident or violent event Make the ultimate sacrifice [1] To die while fighting for a cause Formal Also 'make the supreme sacrifice'
It implies a slow shift from one spiritual state to another. [24] Other definitions for death focus on the character of cessation of organismic functioning and human death, which refers to irreversible loss of personhood. More specifically, death occurs when a living entity experiences irreversible cessation of all functioning. [25]
Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or animal to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
A casualty (/ ˈ k æ ʒ j ʊ ə l t i / ⓘ), as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion.
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. [1] It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest .
Coping with impending death is a hard topic to digest universally. Patients may experience grief, fear, loneliness, depression, and anxiety among many other possible responses. Terminal illness can also lend patients to become more prone to psychological illness such as depression and anxiety disorders. Insomnia is a common symptom of these. [3]
the death of a loved one due to suicide or murder [6] [7] a death due to socially stigmatized cause, such as HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, or lung cancer [3] [7] a death due to capital punishment of a criminal [3] losses that society deems less worthy of grief than the death of a child or adult a parent's loss or surrender of a child to adoption or ...