“God Doesn’t Make Mistakes”: Memorable Messages, Adjustment, and Grief following Family Death

“But you don’t look sick:” Memorable messages of emerging adulthood autoimmune disease

“…The present findings aid in this pursuit by identifying specific (non)support messages in autoimmune disease. The ToMM framework has been used similarly by Droser & Seurer (2022) to identify the appropriate words to say to a loved one experiencing grief and loss. Additionally, these findings build upon Thompson & Duerringer’s (2020) and Thompson et al’s (2021) research on invalidation and contestation of illness by family members by providing supportive and belief-centered messages that family members can communicate to the member with illness, amidst their doubt and uncertainty.…”

“…Message disruption has been explored in varying health contexts, with emphasis on intimate and assigned-female health socialization. Recent health communication research utilizing ToMM has explored the impact of memorable messages on Black women’s dietary and exercise behaviors (Brown & Wingate, 2022), healthcare experiences for pregnant individuals in larger bodies (Basinger et al, 2022), and grief and adjustment following family death (Droser & Seurer, 2022), with each study identifying counter-narratives and messages to disrupt harmful or inadequate ones. Rubinsky and Cooke-Jackson (2021), Holman & Koenig Kellas (2018), and Gunning et al (2019) designed studies that dually investigated messages received and messages desired in the context of reproductive and sexual health conversations.…”

Religious and Cultural Practices of Muslims Living in Central Anatolia on Death and Mourning: A Qualitative Study from Turkey

“…In two separate studies, it was determined that the majority of the participants considered death a normal part of life (Ohr et al, 2017 ; Strupp et al, 2021 ). In another study, it was emphasized that death is an inevitable end and that it is an experience that every family will encounter and mourn many times in their lifetime (Droser & Seurer, 2022 ). The results of this study and most studies in the literature reveal that death is perceived by people as an inevitable end and indeed a new beginning.…”