Abstract
This article aimed to comprehend the ways young-adults deal with the death of one their parents because of cancer, focusing on emotional aspects such as sadness, fear. insecurity, rage and relief. It also examined how these young-adults see and understand life during this process. For data collection, four young- adults, aged between 25 and 35 from both genders, were chosen. They all had gone through a period of mourning for no longer than two years. The participants responded to an individual- semi structured interview which investigated the emotional aspects of grief. The data, which were collected from the interviews, were analyzed qualitatively based on the theoretical assumptions of Bardin (2010) and thematic categories were identified. Subcategories were named and analyzed later on and they revealed that the death of a parent is a painful situation which awakens a variety of feelings, such as sadness, fear, insecurity and sometimes relief. This study shows the importance of a psychosocial network for this population in order to help them elaborate their mourning and minimize their suffering.
Young Adult; Mourning; Cancer
