Living posthumously: from anticipatory grief to self-mourning

Plant, Bob

doi:10.1080/13576275.2020.1810650

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“…Worden [68] notes that engaging with a potential serious loss can also increase people's personal awareness of death, producing existential anxiety-and potentially existential growth. In relation to this, Plant [212] explored the dimension of self-mourning in anticipatory grief/mourning, drawing upon earlier work on the topic and concept by Attig [213]. They both noted that grief processes often include a dimension of dealing with the griever's own mortality: the death of another is a reminder of one's own inevitable death.…”

Section: Anticipatory Grief and Mourningmentioning

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“…Anticipatory grief Grieving in advance [196] Grieving anticipated ecological losses beforehand [2] Anticipatory mourning Rando's proposal for a wider framework [203] Ecological mourning that also includes reactions to ongoing losses and transformation [58] Decathexis Removing emotional bonds with an (lost) object; historical links to Freud, see [218] Similarities with ecophobia, as defined by Sobel [206] Continuing bonds People wishing to continue emotional bonds with the lost person [74] Finding ways to still be in contact with a damaged environment [219] Transitional loss Losses felt due to a transition in life [47] Losses related to transitions caused by the climate crisis [47] Maturational loss Losses related to changing life stages, which can exist alongside felt gains [75] Growing up amidst the climate crisis, resulting in various maturational losses [220] Self-mourning Anticipatory grief/mourning includes a dimension of mourning one's own mortality [212] Ecological grief can activate self-mourning of one's own mortality [183] 3.…”

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2024

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Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between general grief research and ecological grief has received surprisingly little attention. This interdisciplinary article applies theories of grief, loss, and bereavement to ecological grief. Special attention is given to research on “non-death loss” and other broad frameworks of grief. The dynamics related to both local and global ecological grief are discussed. The kinds of potential losses arising from ecological issues are clarified using the frameworks of tangible/intangible loss, ambiguous loss, nonfinite loss and shattered assumptions. Various possible types of ecological grief are illuminated by discussing the frameworks of chronic sorrow and anticipatory grief/mourning. Earlier scholarship on disenfranchised ecological grief is augmented by further distinctions of the various forms it may take. The difficulties in defining complicated or prolonged grief in an ecological context are discussed, and four types of “complicated ecological grief” are explored. On the basis of the findings, three special forms of ecological loss and grief are identified and discussed: transitional loss and grief, lifeworld loss and shattered dreams. The implications of the results for ecological grief scholarship, counselling and coping are briefly discussed. The results can be used by psychological and healthcare professionals and researchers but also by members of the public who wish to reflect on their eco-emotions. They also have implications for policy makers.

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2024

Sustainability

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“…Worden [68] notes that engaging with potential serious loss can also increase people's personal death awareness, producing existential anxietyand potentially existential growth. In relation to this, Plant [211] has explored the dimension of self-mourning in anticipatory grief/mourning, drawing on earlier work on the topic and concept by Attig [212]. They both note that grief processes often include a dimension of dealing with the griever's own mortality: the death of another reminds of one's own inevitable death.…”

Section: Anticipatory Grief and Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Losses related to changing life stages, can exist along felt gains [75] Growing up amidst the climate crisis brings various maturational losses [219] Self-mourning Anticipatory grief/mourning includes a dimension of mourning one's own mortality [211] Ecological grief can activate self-mourning about one's own mortality [182]…”

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Pihkala

2023

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Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between general grief research and ecological grief has received surprisingly little attention. This interdisciplinary article applies theories of grief, loss, and bereavement to ecological grief. Special attention is given to research about “non-death loss” and other broad frameworks about grief. Dynamics related to both local and global ecological grief are discussed. Kinds of potential losses arising out of ecological issues are clarified with the frameworks of tangible/intangible loss, ambiguous loss, nonfinite loss, and shattered assumptions. Various possible types of ecological grief are illuminated by discussing the frameworks of chronic sorrow and anticipatory grief/mourning. Earlier scholarship about disenfranchised ecological grief is augmented by further distinctions about various forms it may take. The difficulties in defining complicated or prolonged grief in ecological context are discussed, and four types of “complicated ecological grief” are explored. Based on the findings, three special forms of ecological loss and grief are named and discussed: transitional loss and grief, lifeworld loss, and shattered dreams. The implications of the results for ecological grief scholarship, counselling and coping are briefly discussed. The results can be used by psychological and healthcare professionals and researchers, but also by members of the public who wish to reflect on their eco-emotions.

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“…2 Anticipatory grief can still be understood in terms of loss, but it is loss that is brought to mind through memory and imagination (cf. Plant, 2022). 3 The paper unfolds as follows.…”

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Mourning a death foretold: memory and mental time travel in anticipatory grief

McCarroll,

Yan

2024

Phenom Cogn Sci

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Grief is a complex emotional experience or process, which is typically felt in response to the death of a loved one, most typically a family member, child, or partner. Yet the way in which grief manifests is much more complex than this. The things we grieve over are multiple and diverse. We may grieve for a former partner after the breakup of a relationship; parents sometimes report experiencing grief when their grown-up children leave the family home. We can also experience grief for people we have never met. Indeed, it is not just persons that we may grieve for. People report feeling grief over the death of their pets, or about the destruction the natural environment. In all these cases one factor that seems to stand out is loss. Despite being about very different things, these various forms of grief all involve a loss of some sort. Yet there is a further aspect of grief, which, on the face of it, does not quite follow this pattern. Grief can also be experienced before a loss has occurred. Grief can be experienced while the person that one is grieving for is still living and before one has (fully) suffered the loss. This phenomenon is known as anticipatory grief. The experience of anticipatory grief is a complex phenomenon, which resists easy classification. Nonetheless, we suggest that mental time travel, our ability to mentally project ourselves into the personal past (episodic memory) and personal future (episodic prospection), is a key mechanism that underpins experiences of anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief can still be understood in terms of loss, but it is a loss that is brought to mind through memory and imagination.

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Living posthumously: from anticipatory grief to self-mourning

Cited by 6 publications

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Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

Mourning a death foretold: memory and mental time travel in anticipatory grief

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