Atheists Mourn Too

Atheists Mourn Too
(Comparative Mourning Process among Atheists and Believer Individuals)

This book you hold in your hands contains the stories of a young man who lost his fiancée to a heart attack a week before his wedding; a brother who received a phone call informing him that his brother had fallen from a building and died; a friend who lost his best friend when the car he was driving plunged into a ditch; a young woman who came home and learned of her father's death from the lamentations rising from the house; a son who lost his father in a car accident he himself drove; a brother who received a phone call informing him that his brother had hanged himself; a daughter who lost her father after receiving the news in a hospital corridor; and many other traumatic losses. This study examines the reactions of believers and atheists to traumatic loss, their processes of adjusting to the loss, the psychosocial changes they experience after the loss, the ways individuals cope with traumatic loss, the support they receive during this process, and the impact of faith on the grieving process in a comparative manner.

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