HERE LIES DEFINITIONS THE HANDBOOK WISHES FOR YOU TO KNOW.
Recently Bereaved: Having experienced a death in this or the last life.
The afterlife: keeping alive after losing somebody you loved. The literal “after” life.
The Living: the people in your afterlife who did not share the experience of your loss.
Window/Windowing/Windowed: when the Recently Bereaved are looked through by the living trying to see their fate.
Big Scary Monster: what you become to the living after becoming one of the Recently Bereaved.
The follow-ups: the questions asked after the “would’ve, could’ve, should’ve’s” to promote a healthier cycle of grief.
EOYLP: the end-of-YOUR-life plan. Instructions for the newly Recently Bereaved to follow at the time of your death in order to avoid genuinely mortifying the deceased.
Emotional lead-through: A well-lit but-shoddily built road in the afterlife that leads the Recently Bereaved to the would’ve, could’ve, should’ve’s.