Death of a child

Resources for Grieving the Death of a Child

• The Compassionate Friends of Canada – an organization supporting bereaved parents
  • Support group: The Compassionate Friends of Canada Waterloo Region chapter
  • Article: Grieving the death of an adult child
• Unhappy crapiversary – A mother writes about the “crapiversary” of her son’s death at age 6
• Losing My Son: Reflections Ten Years Later – parent writes about the death of their son by suicide, reflecting 10 years later
• How a marriage survives after the sudden loss of a child
• What the death of my daughter is teaching me about grief – A mother writes about the grief of losing her daughter at age 11
• Poem: Just for Today by Vicki Tushingham
• Caring Together: Resources for parents whose child died from a serious illness

Books

• Still Life: A Memoir by Jeff Sutherland (Indigo) (Amazon) (Audible)

Meditations

• Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength & Embracing Life After Loss – A 7-part guided meditation via the app Insight Timer (it can also be accessed online without the app). It was created by Dr. Lucy Hone, a resilience researcher and bereaved mom.