Spiritual belief resolves grief

People who profess strong spiritual beliefs resolve their grief more rapidly and completely after the death of a close person than people with no spiritual beliefs, say Walsh and colleagues (p 1551). They followed up 135 relatives and close friends of patients admitted to a Marie Curie centre with terminal illness. Fourteen months after the death of the loved one, people who reported no spiritual belief had not resolved their grief whereas those with strong beliefs had.

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Spiritual beliefs may affect outcome of bereavement: prospective study

Kiri Walsh, Michael King, Louise Jones, Adrian Tookman, and Robert Blizard
BMJ 2002 324: 1551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]