Studies since 1977 have shown that mortality rates increase at this time of year.  Additionally statistics regarding emergency admissions to hospital on public holidays indicate the patient

In so many ways, so many people spend a lot of their lives grieving things they have lost. Some people mourn the past, their lost health or financial loss, and some people forever mourn their lost love, lost dreams or a lost past. Despite your loss, you won’t always be grieving. 

The emotions of grief – sadness, feelings of loss, anger, abandonment, confusion, shock, fear, guilt, as well as deep physical manifestations of all the above,

Photo Credit: HereIsTom via Compfight cc “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not