Meaningful depictions of death in film help bereaved people to cope, research shows

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Meaningful depictions of death in film help bereaved people to cope, research shows

People actively engaging with death, for instance by reading about it, and then watching a film where that subject is central, learn to deal with death better. This is shown in research, by Enny Das and Anneke de Graaf from Radboud University, published in the journal Communication Research.