Grieve for losses yet to occur. Not only for ultimate death, but also for losses that occur before death. The true reality of death cannot be experienced until the death actually occurs. One can grieve the future absence of a loved one. Detachment is not the pattern of anticipatory grief.
Anticipatory grief is a coping and a balancing of competing demands.
Conflicting Tasks Holding on and letting go. Need for autonomy and increasing dependence. Increasing awareness of impending event. Robert Fulton Coping Capacity Vulnerability due to emotional and psychological limitations. Vulnerability to cope due to limitations of abilities to cope behaviorally.