OPINION: Grief part of life – so drop the taboo
By Erin Kavanagh-Hall
With death being one of the only two certainties on this planet, we're all going to lose someone special at some point. To mourn, some say, is the price we pay for love.
Then how come such a natural phenomenon has become such a taboo subject?
I've noticed lately how terrible our society is at handling others' grief. It makes us uneasy.
We don't much like it when people drop their departed loved one into a conversation. We cringe when they put their favourite pictures up on social media. We tell them, simply, to "get over it".
Friends of mine have heard some truly ghastly comments from members of their community.
For example, a mum who lost her baby daughter being asked, not long afterwards, when she was going to try for another baby. A husband whose soul mate died at just 26 being told he was "living in the past" when sharing memories on Facebook.
We don't much like it when people drop their departed loved one into a conversation. We cringe when they put their favourite pictures up on social media. We tell them, simply, to "get over it".
Friends of mine have heard some truly ghastly comments from members of their community.
For example, a mum who lost her baby daughter being asked, not long afterwards, when she was going to try for another baby. A husband whose soul mate died at just 26 being told he was "living in the past" when sharing memories on Facebook.