I am doing a research paper on "grief" . I am interest in other topics besides death.?

Question

I want to center my research paper on life threatening illness and how it effect family.

Answer 1

As you say you wish to write about grief as it deals with families and life threatening illnesses. As such death is always a topic whether it is faced or not. Grief may not be because of imminent death but the loss of loved ones, personal control, ability to do things, career and a host of related potential grief issues. Loss of control, whether it be in business, family, or one's own body may be an excellent choice in grief study and the topic of your paper. I have seen loss of control as a major issue in some managerial types.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have Crohn's and Lupus (lucky my) they are both auto immune diseases that can cause many differant problems physically and mentally. You don't die from either, but sometimes the complications will cause death.Both are the kind that family and friends don't always understand or believe, so there is a tremendous amount of grief in being so sick , tired, sore that you don't feel like getting out of bed, and everyone acts like you are just lazy. Lots of grief when my marriage broke up because I had to steal gro money to go to Dr because my husband didn't believe I was sick. I could write your paper for you on this kind of grief. Let me know if you want more

Answer 3

grief....

well, you can experience grief with the break up of a spouse or a boyfriend/girlfriend. A death of a pet can cause grief (Ok, you said other than death...) When you lose a job, that's grief. When you lose your house or car due to reposession or fire/accident, that's grief. When you look on the scales and try to zip up your jeans after the Christmas holiday, that's grief (I've experienced that! LOL) Failing an exam at school that you've studied hard for, that's grief.

If I think of more I will let you know.

Answer 4

I lost my dad to liver cancer in 2001, my husband to lung cancer in 2003. In between those 2 deaths I lost 4 other close family members and 2 friends. THAT was in a 22 month period! You wanna talk about grief?
I was a widow at 39 with a 7yr old son and 11 yr old daughter ( at the time). My kids lost 3 grandparents in 11 months.
I could write a book.

Answer 5

I don't want to say that you shouldn't do this paper, what I'm trying to tell you is that you shoudlnt' write about grief from what people tell you, write about your own grief. I lost my Dad to brain Cancer when I was eight, before him I lost my grandfather and my grandmom after my father. When your eight and going into third grade and suddenly those three important people aren't there grief becomes a close friend. Don't write about what people tell you write about what you know, wether you have dated Grief or had small aquanteces with it. Write about your heart, and your feelings and the paper will be a bigger hit.

Answer 6

I know when my Grandfather was striken with cancer it consumed my whole familys life. We were at the mercy of his illness. From my mother and I having to travel 150 miles every other day, to having to watch him get worse and worse by the day, without being able to do anything about it. My life will never be the same having to watch him go through that. He finally lost his battle with cancer 4 years ago, and the whole ordeal is still fresh in my mind. Hope I was helpful. Good luck with your paper.

Answer 7

Talk about women (and men) and their grief over losing a breast to mammary cancer. Or, to changes in the body from disfiguring surgery to remove tumors.
Families can have far reaching trickle-down affects from this kind of grief, especially when the patient turns to alcohol or drug abuse (prescription or not) for relief.

Answer 8

My husband passed away in June. He was diagnosed on March 20th and June 6th he passed. I grieve everyday every hour Ill never get over it. The only reason I am still living is because I have children. Nuff said.

Answer 9

As unpleasing as this topic sounds, perhaps exploring the effects terminally ill children have on their families would provide you with the data you seek.

Answer 10

Sometimes, even if no death occurs, you grieve for your health, for your life not being like it used to be, and stuff like that. My son was only 3 when I was ill, and couldn't really express how he felt to see Mommy so sick. It was hard on us, but hard to explain. Best of luck with your paper.