Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Editors and Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Making Sense of Traumatic Loss -- Introduction to Part One -- 1 Traumatic Grief An Existentialist Perspective -- Introduction -- Grief, Crisis and Trauma -- Existentialism -- Flux -- Temporal Ekstases -- The Progressive-Regressive Method -- Phenomenology -- A Holistic Approach -- Biological -- Psychological -- Sociological -- Spiritual -- Existential Trauma -- Some Implications of an Existentialist Approach to Trauma -- Existential Transformation -- Authenticity -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Spirituality and Traumatic Loss ... -- Introduction -- A Holistic View of the Human and the Thrust of Meaning Making -- Traumatic Loss -- Spirituality -- Ways to Strengthen Spirituality: Spiritual Classics and Focusing -- Appropriating a Spiritual Classic -- Focusing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Assisted Death and Suicide Comparing Grief Reactions -- Introduction -- The Oregon Death with Dignity Act: History and Requirements -- Theory and Literature -- Research on Grief Experiences Following an Assisted Death ... -- Comparisons to Suicide: Motivation, Conversations, and Circumstances of Illness -- Stigma -- Legality of Assisted Death -- Expecting the Death, Making Sense of the Death and Feeling Rejected -- Uncertainty over Role as a Survivor (Griever) of Assisted Death -- Discussion -- References -- 4 Traumatic Grief, Crisis, and Attachment Patterns -- Introduction -- DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 -- Grief Research -- What Creates Crisis? -- Traumatic Grief -- Traumatic Grief and Crisis -- Traumatic Grief and Attachment -- Post-. Traumatic Growth and Resilience -- Interventions -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Exploding Houses, Wild Animals, and Spiders