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Library

Various books on different ways to cope with grief are now available to borrow for you or your family's needs.

Caskets Online? 

A third party casket can be obtained online from an unknown vendor. If you purchase through your computer's internet connection, consider these important factors and questions:

• Is there a delivery charge?
• Will the company deliver to your place of choice?
• Find out what is included; blankets and/or pillows?
• If the casket is damaged, will the company replace it? If so, how long will the process take?

Note: The funeral home may not be able to intercede should a problem arise. Heavily consider your funeral home's products to ensure quality and protection of your funeral service items.

Consumer (Death) Information, Symptoms of Grief

As we continue to live though life, we experience different types of losses. At childhood, we may have experienced loss of a pet, even a goldfish, and as we grow in life, we learn how to handle our losses.

Identifying a loss though grief is to understand the stages in which one goes  through.

Unsure if you ae grieving? Grief is the emotional reaction to loss. Mourning is the expression of grief. In 1991, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross became widely recognized for her work on the 5 stages of death and dying. These stages, which can be experienced in any order are:

1. DENIAL- Which is a refusal to accept death as the end.
2. ANGER- Rage at times of the prospect of dying.
3. BARGAINING- A hopeful "lets make a deal" type of attitude with a Higher Power to prevent a delay on death.
4. DEPRESSION- Realizing the finality of death and feeling loss through the end of life.
5. ACCEPTANCE- Reaching a point where death and end of life issues are accepted and resolution of unfinished business with loved ones are explored.

The one thing that grief is not,  is a sickness. Grief is your way in which you live. A person may think about it and/or talk about it but the one thing you must do, is GET IT OUT!

You Are What You Eat

Eating fast foods has become a way of life for teens, working adults and many people. 40% of the American food budget is spent on food away from home.

What may be fast, easy or cheap may not be good for our health. More fat content and less fiber, less iron and calcium are typical in meals outside the home.

Note: Cholesterol levels among children and teens have been progressively higher, which cause early heart attacks. Eating more fruits and vegetables, as well as increasing water will improve your overall health.

Keep Yourself In Check

Aside from death by way of an accident, sickness or natural causes, death can occur slowly by doing drugs or unprotected habits.  For drug testing or aids testing, call WISDOM at (215) 991-6550.  Prevent a slow death, the life you save might be your own!