My Family Mourning Rituals

Mourning rituals can be associated with the grieving process in today’s society through actions and expressing grief. Mourning is the social performance of a grief that is aligned with social and cultural rituals while grief is an internal emotional experience of a loss (Knox, Lectorial notes, week 3, 2017). The grief is developed by the social and culture structure (Walter, 2007). The process of allowing oneself to feel the pain is thought to be beneficial in the normal resolution of mourning. Rituals offer people ways to express their grief. Similar to Walter’s perspective, my experience of the grieving process is that my family and I wore dark colours for 40 days after my grandmother’s death as a cultural ritual. Mourning rituals help people

to acknowledge the sadness of the loss while offering a social support, structure and reaffirmation of life. It involves an action with the grief that helps the person come to terms with the loss of a loved one.
Ritual mourning practices are the expression of the bereaved. Grievers respond emotionally to a loss can be wisely controlled by mourning rituals (Walter, 2007). The process of dealing with the grief is that often involves mourning rituals. The powerful effect that grieving rituals can play in helping people copes with the often chaotic impact of the loss. People use rituals when loss someone to restore the feeling of control and make it easier for them to cope with grief. The entire emotional process of coping with a loss accepts and adapts to find ways to come to terms with the death of their loved one. Therefore, the process of dealing with grief involves mourning practices that understand the expression of grief as a period of time.