Quite apart from the distress caused to bereaved family and friends, it offends social norms and expectations.
Women featured less heavily in the lists of war dead between 1914 and 1918, but they led the ranks of the bereaved.
Nearly half of the severe events involved marital or other relationship crises and 18 % of the depressed subjects had been recently bereaved.
It is unclear what bereaved parents' needs are that can be addressed by the treating hospital shortly after the child dies from cancer.
A needs assessment of what bereaved parents want.
Although the bereaved wished to hold their memorial service in private, the authorities had different plans.
We studied the proportion of bereaved and non-bereaved parents above this cut-off point.
Improving management of bereavement in general practice based on a survey of recently bereaved subjects in a single general practice.