I messed my son’s hair up again, as he was always a scruffy little fellow, then I cut off a lock to keep.

However, more is known about the grief of parents of children who die of an illness than about the grief of parents whose children die suddenly by accidents, homicide, suicide, natural, or man-made disasters [ 91]. That morning, still fresh with grief, my friend was getting ready to leave to face the grim business of arranging her brother’s services.

The remaining 28 percent included 16 percent in which one spouse had died, and only 12 percent of marriages had ended in divorce. The second track focuses on how people are involved in maintaining and changing their relationships with significant others. Bereavement is a broad term that encompasses the entire experience of family members and friends in the anticipation, death, and subsequent adjustment to living following the death of a loved one [ 13]. For parents who have lost a child, it makes no sense for life to end at such a young age—particularly when the death is sudden and without warning.

Get sufficient sleep, eat properly, exercise, take time to relax (for example through listening to music) and also have someone to whom you can turn to for emotional support.One reason for this greater knowledge may be that parents already connected to the health system during their child's illness are more likely to participate in bereavement services after the death as well as having access to services during terminal illness [ 12]. Resources available to parents and professionals include books that focus on helping children with a broad range of grief reactions and types of losses [ 76- 78]. Well-meaning strangers will sometimes ask questions about whether you have children or how many children you have. The degree to which they blame the surviving children, are able or unable to re-establish a positive relationship to the siblings, to engage in the siblings' growth and view their progress and development as uniquely important as the lost future of the child who died has an impact on the stress of the situation for siblings.

Retrospective qualitative studies suggest that surviving siblings may have feelings of isolation and social withdrawal at home and with peers [ 23, 65, 66].Complicated grief in adults refers to bereavement accompanied by symptoms of separation distress and trauma [ 19]. Trying to explain this experience to someone who is skeptical can be a bit painful and is often met with phrases like “That’s what grief can do to your mind,” or “You must have been dreaming. make available professional bereavement follow-up counseling for grieving family members, including individual, family, and/or group; 6. While the added stresses on families' bereavement related to violent and intentional death have been documented, bereavement interventions or follow-up care have only recently been offered in emergency room settings in a systematic way. It is also noticeable that both the narrator and Buntu are resilient when it comes to retrieving their son’s body.