As Mother’s Day approaches, we find ourselves thinking about the relationship that started it all, and about our need to honor the woman who helped to make the world a better place. Indeed, perhaps the greatest partnership of all, and one that aids most in the replenishment of a holier, more “Divine” world, is the [...]
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What is the Meaning of Hope?
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April 20, 2010
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What is the meaning of hope, and how can it help us through the days and nights of our despair? For many, hope is a quality that imbues us with grace in the face of adversity. It is an internal process that allows us to encounter the world with awe and faith in a more [...]
What is the Role of Anger in Grief?
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December 18, 2009
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What can be said about the meaning of anger; and what role does anger play in our eventual recovery from grief? We know that, as humans, we are capable of experiencing a full range of feelings, and that each of our emotions is inexorably connected to its opposite. We know that an honest life insists [...]
Alleged Killings by U.S. Soldier Remind Us of War’s Psychological Toll
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May 31, 2009
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By Dr. Norman Fried – The headlines of many U.S. newspapers this week report that five Americans are dead after a U.S. soldier opened fire at a U.S. base on Camp Liberty in Baghdad, where soldiers were receiving psychological treatment for the stresses of combat or from personal issues. The shooting causes all of us [...]
How Do You Honor Deceased Colleague?
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May 29, 2009
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Michele writes in: At our company, the executive secretary to the President, who was only in her early 30s, died last year suddenly one afternoon. She had been with the company for 12 years. She was like family to many of her coworkers. Any suggestions as to how to recognize the one-year anniversary of her [...]
When a Child is Dying, What Do Classmates Need to Know?
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April 13, 2009
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By Norman Fried — Children with chronic illnesses are often absent from school due to medical treatments and their attendant side effects. Frequent hospitalizations, chemotherapy, outpatient doctor visits and general malaise and fatigue have all interfered with the child’s ability to maintain proper and consistent attendance in school. In the circumstance of a life-limiting diagnosis, [...]
Publicizing End of Life: Has Reality TV Gone Too Far?
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February 27, 2009
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By Norman Fried – A?media star who first became famous for her role as a?crude talking, hard drinking? member of the 2002 reality television show “Big Brother,” has announced in The News of the World that she is dying of end stage cervical and liver cancer. Jane Goody, who has made herself a media phenomenon in [...]
Friends Keep Pushing to “Get Over” the Loss
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February 13, 2009
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From Mary: We lost our most precious son Nov 14, 2006. He was 27, a firefighter, preparing for his wedding, had just bought a house on five acres, was so enjoying his life. He lived with us till a year before. We talked to him every day and saw him almost every day. He was [...]
A Death on “Black Friday”: What is Our Moral Imperative?
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December 11, 2008
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By Norman Fried – On November 28, a Wal-Mart store clerk in Valley Stream, New York, was killed after throngs of Black Friday shoppers broke down the front doors and trampled over him as they rushed in, searching for post-Thanksgiving Day bargains. The Associated Press reports that the impatient crowd knocked the man to the [...]
The Choice to End Treatment: Whose Decision is It?
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November 24, 2008
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Memory as Medicine: How One Heals After a Trauma
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November 3, 2008
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By Norman Fried – A research study from a group of Chinese scientists reports a new drug that successfully erases memories from the minds of mice. The study reveals a molecular genetic paradigm through which a given memory, such as new or old fear memory, can be rapidly and specifically erased in “a controlled and [...]
The Poetry of Death: Can It Comfort Us?
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October 9, 2008
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By Norman Fried – Modern poetry has often found a critical muse in the concept of death. In words apocryphal or mundane, spiritual or skeptical, modern poets have used their art as a means to describe their terse and terminal views of the inevitable. Wallace Stevens, perhaps one of the most skeptical of modern poets, [...]
How Families Survive Trauma and Loss
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October 3, 2008
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By Norman Fried – What are the lessons that trauma, loss and recovery can teach us about family relationships? And what are the changes that occur in families that have to endure tragedy and loss? We know that trauma and loss bring about changes not just in each individual family member but in the family [...]
Survivors of 9/11: Rediscovering the Heroes Inside
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September 11, 2008
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By Norman Fried In her front page article in Wednesday’s New York Times, Anemona Hartocollis reports on the current lives of some of the survivors of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. “Maimed on 9/11, and Trying to be Whole Again” highlights several men and women who were critically wounded, partially paralyzed, [...]
9/11 and the ‘Shelf Life’ of Grief
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September 9, 2008
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By Norman Fried It is a widely accepted belief that, as time passes, mourners’ responses to loss and trauma change. We understand that the physical reactions of grief, including psychomotor retardation, disorientation, fatigue, and panic seem to lessen. We know that spiritual growth and religious connections develop for some mourners as time begins to pass. [...]
The Story Of Gana: What Animals Teach About Grief
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September 3, 2008
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By Norman Fried Last week, the internet and newspapers across Europe and America posted pictures of an 11-year-old gorilla named Gana clutching the corpse of her 3-month-old baby Claudio for days before surrendering his lifeless body to zookeepers. As Gana persisted in cradling her baby, questions by primatologists, psychologists and other social scientists arose. Do [...]
The Lessons of Father’s Day
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June 19, 2007
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Norman Fried – June 16th, 2007 In the weeks and months after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, many New York newspapers published intimate articles about men who lost their lives on that fateful day. In reading their obituaries, I was moved by a common theme that ran throughout: Many of [...]
