Show-Me 'Ambiguous Loss' Advice

A local name check and mention of a tragic story amid so much suffering in the world . . . We linked this one if only because it speaks to ongoing human misery that's often callously politicized by online hacks. 

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Suffering from what grief experts call ambiguous loss: the agony of living in the absence of a loved one whose fate is uncertain. Humans across borders, cultures and time unfortunately know it well. Ambiguous loss can be intimate or global, as in the cases of the missing from the Sept. 11 attacks, tsunamis in the Indian Ocean and Japan, the Turkey-Syria earthquake, the Israel-Hamas war and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The distinguishing feature, according to Pauline Boss, the researcher who coined the term in the 1970s, is the absence of ritual - a wake, a funeral, throwing dirt on a grave - to help the families left behind accept the loss. The only way forward, experts say, is learning to live with the uncertainty - a concept not well-tolerated in Western cultures.

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