Posted by Shar on August 19, 2004, at 23:59:15
In reply to Advertising on PB Grief board » Dr. Bob, posted by Jonathan on August 15, 2004, at 12:32:36
My first response is...ewwwwwwww.
This is like cyber-evangelism.
I volunteer for the local non-profit hospice org, one of the only in-patient facilities in my state, where people come mainly to die (some for symptom control).
And, I've loved and lost my dad as a teen.
I don't think, from my training, education, and personal experience, there is an easy-squeezy way out of dealing with the loss of a loved one. Especially in the U.S. where grief is handled differently than most of the rest of the world handles it.
"What if there is a way to experience loss with far less pain, far less grief and far more quickly?"
Does this not sound like an infomercial?
"What if, for the first time in human history we could learn how to pass through loss with new insight and freedom?"
Well, if something happened now, dealing with grief, for the first time in human history, that would be totally amazing. Think of the timeline being talked about here!
"Well all of this is now possible! It has been possilble for the last 20 years but very few people have been told about it.
It has been a BIG SECRET!!!"Totally infomercial-speak, IMHO.
Nor, do I think there is a happy-go-lucky way to dissolve it all. Surely, those of us here have tried all the easy answers already for a very varied range of conditions and life circumstances.
I think it is great that "someone" has found an answer, but I can't see myself bursting into some patient's hospice room, family present, patient on death bed and saying ..."Hey!!! Have I got great news for you all...and 'til now it's been a BIG SECRET!!" Just go to this website...it's FREE, yes FREE...etc.
I find it most offensive, in fact.
I think there needs to be some sort of respect about how hard it is to lose a loved one, and respect for the process of bereavement, and I disagree with the idea that we can "woohoo! Instantly not feel bad any more It's so easy!!!!"
I think it is very disrespectful. From personal experience, and experience with dying people and their families.
Then again, it ain't my board.
Only my HO.
Shar
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