Bereavement

• Henderson, A.Scott 1994, 'Coping with bereavement', World Health, vol. 47, no. 2, March-April, pp. 25-7.
  Health professionals need to be aware that physical symptoms in the recently bereaved may be due to emotional reactions and they should invoke appropriate support as well as counselling according to local cultural practices. [Abstract from article]
• Langford, Pat 1992, 'All God's angels', The Reader's Digest, vol. 140, no. 838, February, pp. 119-24.
  Lanford presents a personal account of the death of her youngest daughter from cancer and the process of grieving that followed for her and her family.[Abstract from article]
• Morse, Jodie 2001, 'How a widow grieves', Time Australia, no. 46, 19 November, pp. 56-8.
  An account of the loss experienced by 28-year-old Nicole Reda, mother of two, whose husband Greg failed to return from his fifth floor office at the World Trade Centre following the terrorism attack of September 11. [Abstract from Austguide]
• Sweet, Melissa 2001, 'Crying game', The Bulletin, vol. 119, no. 6298, 23 October, p. 65.
  Mal McKissock, with his wife, runs the Bereavement Care Centre on Sydney's North Shore. One of Australia's most experienced bereavement counsellors, he believes there is a worrying trend to medicalise grief and decrease mourning rituals through cremations. Instead, he talks of the passion of grief and its various expressions over time. [Abstract from Austguide]

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Funeral Customs

• Burdon, Amanda 2004, 'The night that follows day - the Australian experience of death', Australian Geographic, no. 74, April-June, pp. 50-79.
  A wide-ranging exploration of death which looks at how Australian culture tends to deny death and examines and describes many of the rites and processes associated with death, from the general characteristics of funerals, to the role of palliative care and the process of a post-mortem in cases of sudden death. [Abstract from Austguide]
• 'Funerals are us', Time Australia, 2004, no. 35, 6 September, pp. 56-7.
  Celebrants in Australia and New Zealand, as well as performing marriages, are increasingly being used in civil funerals, where the focus is on the life of the deceased rather than the possibility of an afterlife. The article looks at this rising trend. [Abstract from Austguide]

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Grief

• Bouras, Gillian 2005, 'The comforting word', Eureka Street, vol. 15, no. 2, March, pp. 24-5.
  An account of the differing approaches to loss and grief of an Australian non-conformist Protestant mother and her Orthodox Greek daughter-in-law and her family following her delivery of a stillborn girl. [Abstract from Austguide]
• Cohen, Susan 1996, ''Rage makes me strong'', Time Australia, no. 31, 29 July, p. 37.
  The author's only child was killed in the Pan Am flight that was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988. In this article she describes her pain with the TWA tragedy, vents anger at so-called grief experts who tried to help her, and tells how rage keeps her strong in her never-ending grieving. [Abstract from Austguide]
• Gordon, Marie 1988, 'How to comfort those who grieve', The Reader's Digest, vol. 132, no. 791, March, pp. 131-4.
  The death of a loved one is a devastating emotional loss. But a sincere expression of caring - and sharing - can help us to turn the grief of futility and despair into the grief of faith and hope and release. [Abstract from article]
• O'Neill, Anne, Marie 1996, 'Suddenly alone', Time Australia, no. 20, 13 May, pp. 26-7.
  The extent of the horror perpetrated by the Port Arthur gunman has left Australians bewildered and grieving, and while sympathy goes out to the victims' families and friends the event has left an indelible mark on every Australian. [Abstract from Austguide]

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