1. This essay was originally offered as the Herbert Spiegelberg Lecture on Phenomenology at Washington University in October of 1985. That annual event was established in recognition of Professor Spiegelberg's contributions to his department and to the profession.
2. Herbert Spiegelberg,Doing Phenomenology: Essays on and in Phenomenology(The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975), p. xiii.
3. Ibid., p. 62.
4. Sec Colin Murray Parkes,Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life(New York: International Universities Press, 1972) and Colin Murray Parkes and Robert S. Weiss,Recovery from Bereavement(New York: Basic Books, 1983) for major empirical studies of the grieving process which affirm this contention.
5. Alfred Lord Tennyson,In Memoriam, quoted in D. J. Enright, ed.The Oxford Book of Death(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 105.