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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Scientific Studies have shown that losing a spouse is the most stressful event that one can experience in one's lifetime. [/b]Note that they said the word stressful. Not grief. I think grief is very individual and cannot be measured. I know people who have lost a spouse and a child and have said that the loss of their spouse was the worst thing. I have a friend who lost a child and a parent and said the loss of their child was worse. So I think its individual based on the relationship.[/quote]

I would think losing a parent is "stressful" in that it completely upends your daily life -- depending of where you are in your lifestage, it means adapting to loss of income, estate logistics, losing your partner for daily activities both leisure and work around the home, perhaps having to be a single parent to grieving children, etc.

Losing a child, particularly an adult child, is emotionally devastating but for most people doesn't impact all your daily activities in the same way that loss of spouse does.

That said, seeing both play out among friends and family, I think the loss of a child tends to be more permanently devastating.[/quote]

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