Short TV interview with grief expert David Kessler discussing coping with death, his meeting with Mother Teresa and her views on dying, and public grief following the deaths of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Kessler advises externalizing feelings (talking to friends, writing condolence letters, bringing flowers) and notes potential prolonged sadness when high-profile deaths occur close together.
Today we talk to a man who is not only an expert on the grieving process, but also someone who has talked to Mother Teresa about death and.
Dying and.
How people should cope with such a loss.
And the one thing she said to me is to please tell Americans not to be afraid of the dying.
David Kessler met Mother Teresa late last year. The author of Rights of the Dying says, mother Teresa did not feel.
That.
Death is like a falling into the arms of God, like going home to God. So I was so touched by how comfortable she was with the possibility of her own death.
Although she may have been comfortable with her own death, that does not make it easier to cope with for those who admired her, many of whom are still grieving over the death of another woman they admired, Princess Diana.
I think we may find with both these women dying so close to the same time that we may be left with a lot of feelings of sadness and depression for a long.
Time, kessler says. It's important to find ways to externalize your feelings, to let them out.
Talk to friends about it, write a condolence letter. Bring flowers to a place you feel would honor the person who has died.
