[ABSTRACT] Anticipatory grief was defined by Aldrich as any grief occurring prior to a loss, as distinguished from the grief which occurs at or after a loss. The term was first introduced by Lindemann in his classic paper about acute grief ?The symptomatology and management of acute grief?(1944).Writing during the Second World War, he observed that some relatives (mainly parents or spouses) of members of the armed forces where the threat of death was ever present, made an adjustment facing a pot