Editing Grief (section)

{{Short description|Response to loss in humans and other animals}}
{{Other uses|Grief (disambiguation)}}{{Distinguish|Griefing}}
{{Redirect|Bereavement}}
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| synonym       = [[Mourning]]; grieving; bereavement<ref name="MedlinePlusGrief">{{Cite web|url=https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001530.htm|title=Grief: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia|website=medlineplus.gov|access-date=21 July 2019}}</ref>
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'''Grief''' is the response to the loss of something deemed [[important]], particularly to the [[death]] of a person to whom or animal to which a [[Human bonding|bond]] or [[affection]] was formed. Although conventionally focused on the [[emotional]] response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, '''bereavement''' refers to the state of loss, while grief is the reaction to that loss.

The grief associated with death is familiar to most people, but individuals grieve in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as [[unemployment]], [[Disease|ill health]] or the end of a [[Interpersonal relationship|relationship]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grief|url=https://hospicefoundation.org/grief|access-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319211508/http://www.hospicefoundation.org/grief |archive-date=19 March 2012 |website=Hospice Foundation of America}}</ref> Loss can be categorized as either physical or abstract;<ref name = therese>{{cite book |first1=Therese A. |last1=Rando |year=1991 |title=How to go on living when someone you love dies |publisher=Random House Publishing |isbn=978-0553352696}}{{Page needed|date=March 2012}}</ref> physical loss is related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, while other types of loss are more abstract, possibly relating to aspects of a person's social interactions.<ref name = therese/>