Health outcomes of bereavement.

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Major depression. (2014, background): “Bereaved patients are at higher risk of new depression, substance use, suicide, and mortality.(68,70)”
Grief Therapy and the Reconstruction of Meaning: From Principles to Practice (2009, positive): “In particular, individuals bereaved through deaths that are violent (e.g., homicide), unexpected (e.g., motor vehicle accident), or untimely (e.g., the death of a child) are at heightened risk of complicated grief reactions marked by an inability to accept the loss, preoccupation with the deceased, ”
Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 (2009, background): “Nevertheless, numerous studies have shown that bereaved individuals have higher rates of disability and medication use than their nonbereaved counterparts [1–7], and are themselves at heightened risk of death [8–11].”
The Ambiguous Link between Marriage and Health: A Dynamic Reanalysis of Loss and Gain Effects (2017, background): “The stress surrounding a divorce is often temporary, and the negative emotions surrounding the loss of a relationship will also decline with time (Stroebe, Schut, and Stroebe 2007).”