Dead we do not want:
So we don’t advocate – I wouldn’t advocate medical treatment for grief, even though it is a very disruptive state, I think that it’s interesting in that in the case of grief, there’s not only an internal natural healing response, which I very much think there is, but there’s also a social healing response. So, of course, when we know that someone has lost someone, we naturally – certainly if they’re someone close to us, we’re going to be there for them for quite awhile after the death occurs. But even if they’re not that close, we’ll often go to the funeral. We’ll go and visit them a few times early in their homes, bring them food, take care of them in various ways, certainly not expect them to be taking care of us, even though we might be a guest in their house. All this is very natural. I mean, we don’t really hardly need to be taught. I mean, people do it in all kinds of cultures and it’s just something we do. And that is, I think, the best way for the healing process of grief to be helped along, not by medical treatment.
Alive we will not heal.