The ways in which eastern and western cultures grieve for their dead are often contrasted.
Eastern cultures are seen to place greater value on traditional ritual and ceremony that, it is …

The interview study described here aimed to explore current views of and practice in
bereavement care and identify priorities for service development in Scotland. Fifty-nine …

Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK
crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for …

Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a
common, intuitively reasonable assumption of positive associations between engaging in …

When someone dies, it is usual for relatives to gather at a funeral to embody a collective act
of eulogy for the deceased and stand against the finality of death. When someone who lived …

The aim of this article is to give an overview of some of the key dimensions of variation in
cultural and religious rituals during the immediate period after a death and in the longer …

and between professional health caregivers and the family of the dead person. 7. There is
deepening realisation that in helping mourners cope with grief we are dealing not just with …

This article draws on research undertaken with the clients of a community-based
bereavement counselling service and reflects on the theory and practice of bereavement …

Bereavement Narratives explores the many ways in which bereaved people maintain
relationships with deceased loved ones and of the factors—social, cultural, personal—that …