Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Bergman admits that he does not fully understand why Largewhiskers' methods work, he offers several possible reasons. For one thing, chantways are "almost always symbolically appropriate." Pathologically prolonged grief, for instance, is "treated with a ceremony that removes the influence of the dead and turns the patient's attention back toward life...
...sick person's autonomy is to let him refuse "heroic" treatments that demean him by causing him to suffer "without adding significant survival." Another way is to let a patient plan his own funeral if he wants to. He should also be allowed to talk about his grief at dying and the probable reactions of his survivors without being told that he is morbid. Lastly, Weisman writes, dying patients must be granted the option of seeking out or refusing to see particular people...
...Diana Muldaur) has been driven mad-not by Granny's dialogue, as might be imagined, but by Mysterious Events. Alexandra sulks around the place in her all-violet wardrobe, and can be discovered from time to time near the closed-over well in the front yard, prostrate with grief...
...concept of "seriousness" has caused Segal considerable grief in his fight to reconcile academic commitment with theatrical diversion. "Look, some people went back to their rooms on Saturday nights to socialize. I used my leisure time for things that were ultimately on public display. I was just amusing myself...
...about. And the teacher gave him an "A" And a gold star. And his mother hung it on the kitchen door, and read it to all his aunts ... Once . . . he wrote another poem. And he called it "Question Marked Innocence," Because that was the name of his grief and that's what it was all about. And the professor gave him an "A" And a strange and steady look. And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door, because he never let her see it... Once, at 3 a.m.... he tried another poem... And he called it absolutely...