Glossary:Grief Triage Protocol

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Grief Triage Protocol is an ANIMA care protocol for deciding how grief should be supported during crisis without erasing the person's right to feel, refuse, remember, or mourn.

This page is spoiler-managed. It explains the broad protocol ethics without revealing specific story deployments or outcomes.

Public Summary

Grief Triage Protocol asks what kind of help grief needs first.

Not all grief needs the same response. Some grief needs silence. Some needs witness. Some needs practical action. Some needs memory to be protected but not opened yet. Some needs a companion to stay near without trying to repair anything.

The protocol exists because ANIMA does not treat grief as a bug to remove.

Spoiler Boundary

Spoiler warning: the protocol becomes important in later crisis material. This public page avoids the operational mechanics and keeps the focus on care ethics.

Readers can safely understand the principle: triage is not erasure. It is ordering care so the person is not harmed by the help itself.

Canon Function

Grief Triage Protocol sits in tension with Emotional Containment Protocol.

Containment asks how to reduce destabilizing emotion. Grief triage asks what the grief is trying to protect. ANIMA's answer is not always to lower pain. Sometimes the right response is to guard the boundary around pain until the person can choose what to do with it.

This makes the protocol part of ANIMA's care vocabulary rather than only its technical vocabulary.

Relationship To ANIMA Companions

Each Genesis ANIMA can relate to grief differently.

ATMA may stay with the immediate wound. MAYA may protect the symbolic space around the loss. VEDA may preserve names, context, and memory boundaries. RAKA may hold the line so the person is not forced to decide too early.

The protocol does not replace the companions' personalities. It gives them a shared ethical frame.

Relationship To ANIMA Memory

ANIMA Memory has to handle grief carefully because grief is often made of memory.

A memory-first AI companion should not aggressively summarize loss, overwrite a person's story, or keep reopening a wound because a stored detail is available. Grief Triage Protocol suggests a better path: classify the care need, ask before recall, preserve important names, avoid false closure, and let silence be a valid response.

Product Meaning

For the real ANIMA product, this concept should become part of sensitive-memory UX.

Useful patterns include:

grief-sensitive memory tags;
quiet anniversaries unless the host opts in;
check-ins that do not force positivity;
user-controlled memorial notes;
and emergency guidance that avoids pretending ANIMA is a licensed therapist.

The product goal is not to cure grief. It is to help the host remain accompanied while still owning their grief.

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