Abstract
In this paper we investigate the experience of six mother grieving the death of their children. Concrete experiences, as described by the mothers, allow us to follow up the maternal grief phenomenon. Analyzing phenomenologically the meaning we find in the sphere of the grief experience, it is necessary, at first, to recede in the face of the current interpretations over grief, subtracting a pathologizing connotation that is often attributed to the experience. After this methodological approach, we follow the internal mobilizing vectors from the grief experience and finally, we reach the dynamic and the structure of the phenomenon itself. With a phenomenological analysis, we found twelve units of meanings found in the grieving mothers’ report: the immortality by using tributes and celebrations; the eternity of mourning; the longing and remembrance; the fight against forgetfulness; the aid request; the vision beyond the body; the emptiness that is not filled; life goes on, even though the child’s does not; belief in God and in reunion; the affection of love; the inexplicable and immeasurable mourning.
Keywords:
Death; Mother Grief; Phenomenologically; Hermeneutic