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Helping
Hands
With a shared sense of warmth and trust, friends can help bereaved individuals overcome their losses. The first step involves helping friends anticipate loss by guiding them through gentle discussions and balanced realism that helps them prepare for the inevitable. After the loss, the bereaved should be encouraged to express their feelings. Friends should offer their support as the grieving individuals confront anger and denial during the early stages of their grief. It is important to be empathetic and patient, as well as sympathetic and nonjudgmental. It should be recognized that grief is a powerful emotion that cannot be mitigated by encouragement to “cheer up”. Beyond that, it is important for friends to simply be available, not intrusive. Being available to a loved one who is dying or to a friend who has lost a family member is often perceived as very difficult. But what most of us want is simply the human connection offered by the presence of another to help us out. At the Moser Funeral Home, 233 Broadview Avenue,Warrenton we know that offering our support sometimes just means being with you as you grieve and listening to your loss. Call us at 347-3431. “ It is not so much our friends’
help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they
will help us. ”
- Epicurus -
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