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Coping with Traumatic Bereavement

December 1991
Bereavement Care 10(3):31-32

DOI:10.1080/02682629108657272

Authors:

Colin Murray Parkes

St Christopher's Hospice

The Gulf War forced combatant nations to prepare for the possibility of large numbers of traumatic bereavements. As part of the response in the United Kingdom a conference on this topic was organised by Cruse Bereavement Care, which took place on 20th February, 1991 in London. In the event deaths were largely confined to the Iraqi forces. Even so, traumatic bereavements occur in all countries at all times. The paper which follows is an edited version of one read at that conference.

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