Saludos desde Chile

Thank you so much Marta.
You write about your work with people facing death through violence and you note that the ‘popular’ theories of grief, like stage theories, do not always fit for people. In my work I sometimes invite colleagues to reflect on the different meanings we give to different sorts of death, dying and loss experiences (for example death through illness, accident or suicide) and to share how our family, cultural and religious stories inform the different stories we tell about these different death experiences. I am now wondering what stories the people you work with tell about death through violence; who holds the stories and who tells the stories and which stories open space for their families and communities to find preferred ways to go on?
This also makes me think about the new and different stories that have started circulating in our world since the recent violent death following rape of a young female student in India – and then another story comes to mind of women all around the world dancing in protest against the world-wide abuse of women and for freedom from violence – and that fills me with hope. ( http://www.onebillionrising.org )
I am always intrigued by how juxtaposing different stories opens space for new ways to go on….
Glenda