Leaders at Faith Hospice say all loss is hard but death by suicide, miscarriage, murder or other traumas can leave families feeling shame, regret, guilt and isolation.
A new program addresses that.
“It's looking at other areas of loss that just where there just is not a lot of support and that's how we came up with the name Real Grief because it's so real. It's so real yet unimaginable.”
Director of Integrative Support Services Janet Jaymin says the Real Grief program is different from Faith Hospice’s traditional bereavement services after the death of a loved one, acknowledging the added challenges of sudden, sometimes violent, loss.
“A lot of these topics are just not addressed, not talked about and people are expected to just kind of ignore their feelings or buck up and keep going and that's just not healthy and it's not good.”
There is no charge for bereavement care.
People can access the Real Grief program by contacting Faith Hospice, which serves nearly 300 patients daily with medical, emotional and spiritual care for individuals and families in end-of-life situations.
“People walk away from the topic of death and the whole topic of grief because it's hard. It's painful and I sometimes think that people feel if they don't talk about it, they don't think about it, they can escape it. But the reality is that we all have to deal with it at some point in time in our life.”
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