Learning to learn with the pain of loss

STEPHEN King (December 7) courageously exposes his ultra-personal raw nerve of loss.

Identifying the totality of his current, painful close bereavement experience, which debilitates on all fronts physical, mental, emotional and social, he compellingly conveys the intense absence (especially compounded by sudden departure), as a full-on body-soul challenge. No mistaking.

Hard to believe that these same feelings are being endured day-in-day-out by many people countrywide and worldwide. It barely helps to know that, during the confusing crux of adjustment. The strange sense of detachment from the surrounding goings-on, is like as being a spectator of life without being really in it.