Social media, such as YouTube, is increasingly a site of collective remembering where personal tributes to celebrity figures become sites of public mourning. YouTube, especially, is rife with celebrity commemorations. Examining fans’ online mourning practices on YouTube, this article examines video tributes dedicated to the late Steve Jobs, with a focus on collective remembering and collective ...

BACKGROUND Despite continuing political, legal and moral debate on the subject, assisted suicide is permitted in only a few countries worldwide. However, few studies have examined the impact that witnessing assisted suicide has on the mental health of family members or close friends. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 85 family members or close friends who were present at an assisted suicide...

Prolonged grief disorder, which is proposed as a new diagnosis in ICD-11, and depression have some similarities but also several key differences. In order to provide the correct help and treatment, it is important for doctors to be able to ascertain whether a person is struggling with prolonged grief or has become depressed following the loss of a loved one.

This research aims to analyze the interactions related identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups whose purpose is give support those who are grieving. A qualitative content analysis 1,816 comments three on mourning, published between February 23 March 23, 2020, was conducted. The were grouped into 456 digital group members, from which analytic categories “identification with oth...

Background: The disappearance of a loved one is a unique type of loss, also termed 'ambiguous loss', which may heighten the risk for developing prolonged grief (PG), depression, and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms. Little is known about protective and risk factors for psychopathology among relatives of missing persons. A potential protective factor is self-compassion, referring to openness ...

MARCH 1, 2002 / VOLUME 65, NUMBER 5 www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 883 physiologic changes associated with dying. Survey instruments designed to detect depression have not been well studied in patients who are dying and lack specificity because questions addressing somatic, functional and affective criteria can generate false-positive results. The Geriatric Depression Scale, for exa...

IMPORTANCE The death of a loved one is one of life's greatest, universal stressors to which most bereaved individuals successfully adapt without clinical intervention. For a minority of bereaved individuals, grief is complicated by superimposed problems and healing does not occur. The resulting syndrome of complicated grief causes substantial distress and functional impairment even years after ...