The Myth of Closure by Pauline Boss

Author:Pauline Boss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

Indeed, she did much more. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross gave us all a major gift—not the five stages, but the global hospice movement. We will all benefit from her work at the end of our lives, but for now, let’s heed her important last words.

Viktor Frankl

Finally, there was Viktor Frankl, whose writings helped me understand my own losses. An Austrian psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor from The World War II Holocaust, his ideas about the ongoing presence of lost loved ones, as opposed to closure, moved me. Early on, his focus on the search for meaning made sense to me and is now supported by research affirming that we can live with loss if we find some meaning in it. He personally found meaning enough to survive amid death and suffering, by keeping his beloved wife present in his mind. From the misery of the concentration camp, Frankl wrote:

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