2006-10-26 14:43:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
It's a sense of being "finished" with something. If a relative gets killed, identifying the murderer and seeing him go to jail can provide a sense of closure; of knowing the whole thing is finished.
It doesn't lessen the pain or trauma of the event, but without closure the healing is much longer and may never be complete.
2006-10-26 14:52:33 · answer #1 · answered by bks33691 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow ... that is an OPEN question. If it is cold outside and you don't like the weather and your door is open, you close it. In this way, your room heats up and you start to feel comfortable and safe. Likewise, life opens some pretty uncomfortable, and at times some downright nasty doors. We 'weather the storm' and something happens, it might be just time, and life becomes a little less uncomfortable, a little less distressing. And like closing the door in the inclement situation, the catalyst, the thing that happened to make life easier is the precursor to what is called closure. For example; your heart is broken because your lover cheats on you and takes something valuable to you, beside your heart, hopes and dreams. Time passes...you meet others...you don't love them as much as the other but you become to hate that person less and they are no longer in your waking moments...and one day you find you can mention their name without tears filling your eyes...THE DOOR IS NEARLY SHUT...you won't forget but you feel better. That is closure.
2006-10-28 04:42:35 · answer #2 · answered by marimu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closure is a word from the 90s that the liberals made popular. It was used to explane away the feeling of loss when you have a friend or family member die.
There is no real closure the pain just grow less over time.
2006-10-26 21:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I will explain it this way, if you had a relationship and it ended , without a reason, just stopped , and you was the one wandering what happen ?
?, what went wrong?, you would want the other person to answer these questions to understand and you could have closure to the situation and move on ...
2006-10-27 08:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by Sheena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I won't repeat what's already been said but here's a true story. My boyfriend was murdered in 1996. He lived FAR from me and I wasn't at the funeral. All this time I have been trying to convince myself that everyone lied and he was still alive. Even after I saw the death certificate and police newspaper clipping. Last year, I went to where he lived and saw where he was buried. It wasn't until then that I really knew he was gone.I then had closure in my life.
2006-10-27 22:25:18 · answer #5 · answered by chilover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closure to me is when something has been on your mind and you have worked through it to somekindof resolution and can finally walk away from it. It is satisfactory to reach closure on anything.....but sadly sometimes is impossible due to forces outwith your control.
2006-10-28 05:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by eagledreams 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an alternate term coined to deal with loss or to signal an end to something that was traumatic/ of great significance.
2006-10-26 22:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by ViRg() 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you know the "deceased" is really dead. Can you aceept it? Then comes time to close the book and move on.
I do not know if the Jesus Ascension religion bit helps?
2006-10-27 04:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by Perseus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you finally come to terms with a loss of something or a change in something in your life, and you are comfortable talking about it and facing it every day without feeling aweful or having it break you down
2006-10-26 21:47:34 · answer #9 · answered by chele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is when you deal with something to the point it no longer dominates part of your life
2006-10-30 09:50:25 · answer #10 · answered by lizabeth h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋