Coping with loss: Bereavement in adult life

The ideal is to achieve a balance between avoidance and confrontation which enables the person gradually to come to terms with the loss. [...]people have gone through the painful process of searching they cannot "let go" of their attachment to the lost person and move on to review and revise their basic assumptions about the world. [...]most bereaved people come through the experience stronger and wiser than they went into it.