Mourning

Mourning is the personal and social expression of grief after a death. It includes emotional responses, rituals, and visible practices shaped by relationships and culture.

Grief: Grief is the emotional, cognitive, physical, and social response to significant loss. Mourning is grief expressed through personal practices and shared social forms.
Funeral: A funeral is a ceremony or set of rites held in connection with a person's death and disposition of the body. Funerals provide a focal occasion for collective mourning.
Death: Death is the irreversible cessation of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. A death is the loss to which mourning responds.
Prolonged grief disorder: Prolonged grief disorder is a diagnosable condition involving persistent, impairing grief after a death. It distinguishes a clinical diagnosis from mourning as a broad human response.
Bereavement: Bereavement is the state of having lost someone through death. It names the condition of loss within which mourning takes place.
Wake: A wake is a gathering held before or after a funeral to remember and honor someone who has died. This specific gathering brings mourners together around a recent death.
Attachment theory: Attachment theory explains how bonds between people form and shape responses to separation and loss. Close bonds help explain why bereavement can prompt intense distress and searching.
Anticipatory grief: Anticipatory grief is grief experienced before an expected death or other impending loss. It begins before the death, unlike mourning in the sense used here.
Continuing bonds: Continuing bonds are enduring connections people maintain with someone who has died. Memories and ongoing relationships can remain part of mourning rather than being relinquished.
Sitting shiva: Sitting shiva is a Jewish mourning practice in which close relatives observe a period of mourning at home after burial. It illustrates how a defined period and shared visits structure mourning.

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