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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibilities of the greenhouse effect, but politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
...Sometimes people just come in and cry. They just need a place to cry. You just can't go around the University crying. Sometimes they hug each other," says Reisz...
Gould says that Life Raft can fulfill needs that even those who are close to the bereaved participants cannot. Roommates, for example, might not know how to handle the situation, she says. "People who are bereaved," Gould says, "find that other people tune out. These people need not to be closed...
Life Raft's weekly meetings follow no plan, nor do the discussions revolve only around death. "You need a place to go where you can just relax for a couple hours," the grad student says. "It's a place where you can cry or sit or can do whatever you want. We don't all talk about the person we've lost. We talk about our lives now, how our family situations have changed. I did not anticipate how much my family would change after the loss of one member...
...grad student says she is not sure how long she will continue to attend the meetings. Next month is the anniversary of her father's death, and she says she will need Life Raft to help her get through that period. "It is a year later. I should be fixed, maybe I won't go as often now, but I know from my own experience that I can't judge that...