What term describes attempting to contact the deceased and deny death's finality?

• A. Bereavement
• B. Spiritualism
• C. Selective forgetting
• D. Minimizing

Answer: (B)

The main idea is seeking a direct link with someone who has died as a way to avoid accepting that death is final. This behavior is best described by spiritualism, a practice that involves attempting to communicate with spirits of the dead, often through mediums or séances. Spiritualism centers on the belief that the deceased can be contacted and that those interactions can preserve a connection beyond death.

Bereavement refers to the process of grieving and adjusting to loss; selective forgetting isn’t a standard term used to describe this behavior, and minimizing is more about downplaying the significance of the loss rather than pursuing contact with the deceased. So the term that fits the description is spiritualism.