bereavement
Grief from death
Bereavement is the state of having lost someone close, especially through death.
The word emphasizes the emotional weight of loss—grief, mourning, the void left behind: She took bereavement leave after her mother died.
Bereavement can also refer to the loss itself: a recent bereavement in the family.
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- sadnessState of emotional pain
despair · desolation · woe · suffering · melancholy · lamentation · misery · torment
Bereaved wife, unmarried since
- widowerMan whose wife died
- orphanChild whose parents died
- deceasedNo longer living
- decedentLegal term for deceased
passing · demise · expiration · departed · next of kin · survivor · loss · widowhood
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- shivaJewish week of mourning
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- eulogyTribute for the dead
condolences · obituary · interment · cremation · burial · visitation · remembrance · dirge
Professional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- support groupGathering for mutual encouragement
- condolenceExpression of shared grief
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
compassion · comfort · healing · coping · closure · acceptance · pastoral care · hospice
Absence of substance
- absenceState of not being
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- vacuumAbsence of matter
silence · numbness · isolation · gap · longing · ache · missing · disconnection
Property and grounds
- probateWill validation proceedings
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- executorAppointed estate manager
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
testament · beneficiary · life insurance · pension · survivorship · intestate · bequest · trustee
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
sadness · despair · desolation · woe · suffering · melancholy · lamentation · misery · torment · agony
widow
Bereaved wife, unmarried since
decedent · passing · demise · expiration · departed · next of kin · survivor · loss · widowhood · orphaned
funeral
Service honoring the dead
eulogy · condolences · obituary · interment · cremation · burial · visitation · remembrance · dirge · cortege
counseling
Professional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- support groupGathering for mutual encouragement
- condolenceExpression of shared grief
sympathy · compassion · comfort · healing · coping · closure · acceptance · pastoral care · hospice · grief counselor
emptiness
Absence of substance
- absenceState of not being
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- hollownessState of being empty inside
vacuum · silence · numbness · isolation · gap · longing · ache · missing · disconnection · incompleteness
estate
Property and grounds
- probateWill validation proceedings
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- executorAppointed estate manager
will · testament · beneficiary · life insurance · pension · survivorship · intestate · bequest · trustee · death certificate
- therapypsychotherapy, therapist, session, counselor, group therapy
- life adjustmentsempty nest syndrome, homesickness, separation anxiety, midlife crisis, identity crisis
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- griefgrief, mourning, sorrow, grieving, lamentation
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- Charity Workvolunteer programs, clothing drive, clothing drives, toy drive, meal program
bereavementjoy
Intense positive emotion
euphoria · elation · jubilation · celebration · bliss
- bereavement leaveWork absence for mourning
- bereavement supportHelp for those mourning
- bereavement careAid for the grieving
- bereavement payWages during mourning leave
- bereavement counselorProfessional supporting the grieving
- bereavement servicesSupport following a death