**Notes**

1 Continuing bonds is a theory developed in contemporary studies of death, dying and bereavement (Klass et al. 1996; Stroebe et al. 2012; Walter 1996). It grew from dissatisfaction with traditional models of grief which emphasised the need for detachment from the deceased (Freud 1917), or asserted that the grieving process progressed through a unilinear series of stages towards the restoration of a pre-bereavement status quo (Kubler-Ross 1969; Bowlby 1973, 1980; Worden 1991). Grief, in practice, is far more complex than a linear trajectory of 'recovery', and (consciously or unconsciously) individuals often form new types of relationships ('continuing bonds') that endure to a greater or lesser extent throughout the rest of their lives (Shuchter and Zisook 1993, p. 34).
