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World Service,2 mins

Is grief getting ‘medicalised’?

Heart and Soul

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When journalist and presenter Colin Brazier lost his wife to cancer, it was unbearably sad – “but it was only sad.” As a man of faith, he is wondering whether the role of faith is in danger of being supplanted by what he calls “a secular toolkit based around psychology.” For Ed Hussein – who identifies as a Muslim humanist - faith helps explain the meaning of life and death, and without it, people may struggle to cope with their loss. (Photo credit: ѿý)

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