Tag: death

The best way to prevent suicide is not with suicide hotlines and counselors. The best way to prevent suicide is create a more compassionate society that helps people in pain before they get to the point of wanting to kill themselves.

Mourning is terrible feeling of coming to terms with the fact that what once was can never be again.

Time does not heal all wounds. It causes some wounds to fester and spread.

There are few survivors who can tell us what it feels like to actually drown. The feeling of drowning, however, is familiar to many. A drowning person is still conscious, still has some… more emotion Drowning

The emotional suffering of wintertime is well known, so strong that it often endures into springtime. An autumnal mood, however, is more complex. We feel hints of lingering warmth in the Fall, along… more emotion Autumnal

The future is always there, some physicists say. It is as real as the present, as material as the road a mile ahead of us, inaccessible to us in the moment, but a… more emotion Doom

The consistent admonitions against morbid feelings hint at a taboo against focusing on the negative aspects of life… especially death.

Pretending that death isn’t something to be bothered about is obviously unrealistic, but there’s no clinical term to describe the psychopathology of people who deny the reality of death.