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Traumatic losses
Traumatic losses refer to losses and deaths that include objective elements such as suddenness and lack of anticipation; violence, mutilation, and destruction; preventability or randomness; multiple deaths; and the mourner's personal encounter with death, where there is either a significant threat to personal survival or a massive or shocking confrontation with the death and mutilation of others. it is one of the interpretations or theories of mourning.
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