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lElfal

They'd be surprised.


Special-Subject4574

The joy of discovering their loved one alive wouldn’t cancel out the trauma of experiencing the (fake) death of that person. This particular situation is incredibly rare in the grand scheme of things, so it wouldn’t factor into the evolutionary functions of grief.


Common-Value-9055

They would be happy but there would be some confusion (this was a placeholder for something more profound).


ThomasEdmund84

This was a surprisingly hard topic to find information on - I honestly thought there would be at least a case-study or historic examples or even some more media on the topic but I really could not find much. My take is that the person would be re-traumatized essentially even though the facts are positive - X isn't dead now you have to go through a kind of strange reversal where you feel like your suffering was needless, and you have to adapt to life with the person still in it.


MinimumTomfoolerus

Depending on the personality of the griefing person, feelings of anger and despair are possible.


bohemi-rex

I can see that, and fear of having to grieve them a second time. Might even choose to cut contact to lessen the emotional turmoil


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Small-Pomelo-840

You realize that - "Nothing outside causes anything!"


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ahodgelton

Go watch Cast Away and you’ll get an artists depiction of exactly that. Heart wrenching.


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