A fragile, beautifully human evocation of bereavement and its aftermath, it proved beyond question that McCartney was still capable of at least fleeting brilliance.
His sitters carry evocative props: peaches symbolize families' thriving orchards, and jewelry containing human hair suggests recent bereavement.
The Iceberg by Marion Coutts and Gabriel Weston's Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story were each, in their different ways, unsparing and courageous reckonings with bereavement and human sickness.
Monthly meetings, taught by grandmother members, serve as important educational opportunities, informing communities on issues such as HIV/AIDS, sexual rights, human rights, parenting and bereavement.
Donald McIver, vice president for human resources at MWW, said its bereavement policy was changed to include the deaths of friends, as well as those of family members, and the company allowed employees to take take time off to volunteer at relief organizations.
For such an all-consuming emotion, grief – specifically bereavement – has to be the least discussed human ordeal in the Western world.
Paired sample t tests were conducted to test changes in internalizing and externalizing problems between pre- and post-bereavement specified for parental bereavement, sibling bereavement, family bereavement and for the non-bereaved.
Bereavement counsellor Joan Brennan emphasises the importance of talking about it, adding: "We are human beings.
These poems express the sorrow and pain of bereavement, evoke the horror of death's physical manifestations, and suggest the transitory nature of human life.
Children still have to deal with private catastrophe – bereavement or abuse, illness or trauma – as well as global horror: the horrific evidence of human aggression and the suffering it causes, there on your phone all day, every day.
