Learning To Say Goodbye

First published in 1987. Why is it so difficult to ''let go'' or say ''goodbye'' to those we love? Death is inevitable. We live with it everyday through others we know, through often short-lived per-ts, on TV and in the news. Yet, when it happens to us, to our parents mainly, why are we so hesitant to say ''goodbye''? Religion teaches that we go on to something so much better, yet we ''hang on...