Word: griefs
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...Nature is weeping in rain when they bury an honest person," sighed a middle-aged, ordinary-looking woman in the crowd. However banal, her words reflected the common mood. The grief for a journalist murdered for speaking the truth about war crimes in Russia had brought together a range of people who in past decades would never have voluntarily found themselves in the same company...
...response to the abduction of an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit. At Damilaz's funeral, militants in black T shirts fired AK-47s in the air. On a white wall, someone had sprayed the words CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FAMILY FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF DAMILAZ HAMAD. The only genuine grief was from the girl's paraplegic mother, who lay crumpled on a mattress on a dirty floor, wailing for her lost daughter. I listened to friends trying to convince the family that Allah had singled out Damilaz, instead of all the ruffians and murderers in this blighted stretch of Gaza...
...Meanwhile, the Amish in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, are sticking by their traditional rituals to the letter. And they?re having to fight off helicopters and TV trucks to do it. For them, there is no need to publicly proclaim one?s depth of grief, for even this is ritualized - during the funeral processions, each buggy hangs a number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just...
...quickly return to holding conversations, eating meals, getting out of bed, and resuming work. Even though they?re the majority, those who are capable of this have their own sort of guilt, confused by their own resilience. Too often we outsiders presume these people are in denial of their grief, or that they?re ?acting healed? too soon. For those who respond this way, normalcy is not healing itself - it?s merely a conduit to healing. Their sadness should not be measured by their ability to function. We may wish we could make a grand gesture, but getting shoes...
...midst of attempts to get Elizabeth to show sympathy, she declares she will continue with “restrained grief and private mourning. That’s what the rest of the world has always admired about...