Helpful articles

Here you will find encouraging articles and practical support for you as you face the on going challenges of life without your son or daughter.

• Complicated grief
• Coroners and inquests
• Coping with milestones and tripwires
• Daring to dream of more children
• Death and Society – types of death that are ‘socially uncomfortable’
• Different dads, different struggles
• “How many children do you have?” – answering that difficult question
• Losing a child with additional needs
• Maintaining your relationship when your child has died
• Men, women and grief
• Someone to talk to when your world collapses
• When your only child has died
• Why holidays are so difficult

Further help:

• “How You Can Help Bereaved Parents” (some Do’s and Don’ts) – PDF
• “Do’s and Don’ts for bereaved dads” – PDF
• “Do’s and Don’ts for Employers” – PDF
• Bereavement support organisations
• MuchLoved – Create an online memorial