Coping with grief: Why some feel and act the way they do

A woman overwhelmed after losing a relative. [Getty Images]

Death or the Grim Reaper is always represented by dull or just black colours. While death does not spare the rich and the mighty, it also doesn't empathise with the poor and downtrodden. In death, there lies an ultimate equaliser, whose trail of tears and pain is often too much to bear.

Death is an inevitable part of life whose pain virtually all of us have gone through at some point in our lives.