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a pregnancy loss (i.e. miscarriage and stillbirth) or infertility issues; other non-death losses the loss of a relationship with a person who has become severely disabled (e.g., comatose, advanced stages of dementia) [3] a trauma in the family a generation prior [8] the loss of a home or place of residence [9] [10] [11] the loss of a job [12]
The following is a list of terms used in relation to age with negative connotations.Many age-negative terms intersect with ableism, or are derogatory toward people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Term Notes References A few sandwiches short of a picnic Used of people perceived as having reduced or limited mental faculties. Numerous derivatives with no known original (e.g. "a few books short of a library").
Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or other living thing 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.
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue; Use power with power, and slay me not by art. Tell me thou lov’st elsewhere; but in my sight, Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside: What need’st thou wound with cunning, when thy might Is more than my o’er-press’d defense can bide?
For if you were by my unkindness shaken, As I by yours, you’ve pass’d a hell of time; And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken To weigh how once I suffer’d in your crime. O, that our night of woe might have remember’d My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits, And soon to you, as you to me then, tender’d
Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. It refers to when someone is treated as if they are dead or non-existent. [1] It is used by sociologists such as Orlando Patterson and Zygmunt Bauman, and historians of slavery and the Holocaust to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process.
Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event; Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in transit from a transmitter to a receiver Free-space path loss, the loss in signal strength that would result if all influences were sufficiently removed having no effect on its propagation