Disenfranchised Grief And Nonfinite Loss

Admittedly, when reading the article Disenfranchised Grief and Nonfinite Loss as Experienced by the families of death row inmates written by Sandra J. Jones and Elizabeth Beck who conducted a study in 2007 and finding that family members of death row inmates experience grief differently than others in society. In the article, two of the main issues that the authors discussed was the concepts of disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss. Additionally, these concepts are defined by the authors quoting Bruce and Schultz saying “family members are disenfranchised from their grief, as society does not socially validate their pain. The loss that they feel is also nonfinite in that it is continuous and denies the families all of the hopes,dreams, and