Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I'm Not a First Responder, but I Was, I Was Not Even Brave, and I Don't Know What to Do About It.
i feel like these kinds of a events are just that much more in our cultural imagination. And maybe it's also because the cameras are ever present, and we we see that these people, these family members, cannot find peace. We come from culture, in this country, of, i think, mastery orientation. We're not comfortable with unanswered questions. This is full of unanswered questions. These are losses that are minus facts. You don't know if they're alive or dead. You don't knows if they're coming back. That kind of mystery,. i think, gives us a feeling of helplessness that we're very uncomfortable with as a society. So i think we're taken to...
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