What is the purpose of grieving for a lost loved one?
There isn’t a purpose of grieving for a death, as there isn’t a purpose behind many human behaviours. When you lose somebody, be it a friend, a parent, a relative, an husband, a wife…., you can’t think, your behaviour is irrational. So grieving is simply a way to follow the traditions (because you’re too confused and too instable to do rational things), and to show how much you’re suffering. Maybe grieving is also something you hold on, trying to ignore the inner feelings.
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What is the purpose of grieving for a lost loved one?
There isn’t a purpose of grieving for a death, as there isn’t a purpose behind with many human behaviours. When you lose somebody, be it a friend, a parent, a relative, an husband(Most people would write a husband but you are technically right), a wife…. You can’t think, your behaviour is irrational, so grieving is simply a way to follow the traditions (because you’re too confused and too inunstable to do rational things), and to show how much you’re suffering. Maybe grieving is also something you hold on to, trying to ignore the inner feelings.0
Hi Daniele,
I think that grieving is a process that helps you come to terms with your loss and helps you get on with your life.
Sue
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I know you didn’t ask for this, but I couldn’t help writing this comment :-)
Grieving for someone who is dead is irrational, that’s true, because you can’t change the fact that a person is dead. But what if you think about it like this?: If we feel pain when someone we care about is missing, then we will try to find them. So if you were a hunter-gatherer society living in the jungle and one or more people didn’t return from the hunt, you would do everything you could to find those people and that might save their lives.
And there was a time when spending a lot of time trying to find someone could also be very risky for yourself. In order for you to survive you had to find food more or less every day. But spending time on searching for someone would be time not spent on finding food. By making you miss someone intensely, your body would make it more likely you would behave unselfishly and not only care about your own survival.
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What is the purpose of grieving for a lost loved one?
There isn’t a purpose of grieving for a death, as there isn’t a purpose behind many human behaviours. When you lose somebody, be it a friend, a parent, a relative, an husband, a wife…., you can’t think, your behaviour is irrational. So grieving is simply a way to follow the traditions (because you’re too confused and too instable to do rational things), and to show how much you’re suffering. Maybe grieving is also something you hold on, trying to ignore the inner feelings.What is the purpose of grieving for a lost loved one?
I feel that there is little purpose in grieving for the death of a person. I think we do this because when we lose somebody, be it a friend, parent, relative, husband or wife (you could say spouse = husband or wife) you can't think and your behaviour is irrational. So grieving is simply a way to follow tradition because you are too confused and too unstable to act rationally and show how much you are suffering. Maybe grieving is also something to hold on to, in an attempt to ignore our inner feelings.
Note: So maybe this is why grieving is not really irrational!
Interesting topic for discussion!
Jacob
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