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This section provides a wide variety of topics and resources related to coping with suicide loss and grief.

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Suicide Grief

Healing After a Suicide Loss

Healing After A Suicide Loss is a guide to help those who have lost someone to suicide or for those who would like to know more on how to support those who have lost someone to suicide. The guide is available in electronic and print form.

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Organizational Survivor Support

A death by suicide not only affects family and friends but also many organizations; including places of employment, schools, religious organizations, sports teams, community groups, and many more. It is helpful to have support not only for an individual but also for an organization.

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Individual Survivor Support

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide you are not alone. It can be challenging navigating the waters of grief on your own but there are supports available. The Suicide Loss and Support Coordinator at the Helpline Center is available to to talk, in-person or over the phone.

Grief and Children

For Schools and Educators

Schools play a key role in suicide prevention. Teachers, librarians, counselors, and all school personnel can have a part in keeping students safe and showing a community that cares about mental health. Together we can create an environment that is prepared to support any student when they show signs of being at risk for suicide.

Surviving After Suicide Monthly Support Group

Our monthly support group provides survivors with a powerful community that comes together to share, reflect on, and experience that complex grief that accompanies losing a loved one to death by suicide. It’s a safe, confidential space that looks to provide hope to survivors no matter where they are at in their journey.

Surviving After Suicide Class

Being a survivor of suicide loss is complex and can feel lonely; one can be left with unanswered questions and conflicting emotions. The Surviving After Suicide Class is a ten week education and support based class for adults that is designed to support survivors as they express and seek to understand the powerful grief they experience. Each class focuses on a unique aspect of survivor grief and is followed by a support session allowing members to share their stories.

Suicide Grief

Survivor Resource Library

The Helpline Center has a Survivor Resource Library with books related to grief and suicide grief. They are available to be sent to you at no charge.

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Caring Cards

Caring cards are made by survivors who understand the pain of losing a loved one to suicide. The cards are sent to survivors near the anniversary of their loved one’s death. If you are interested in receiving a caring card or helping make them, please email griefsupport@helplinecenter.org

Suicide Grief

The Suicide Survivor’s Bill of Rights

1 - I have the right to experience my own unique grief. No one else will grieve this death in exactly the same way I do. So, when I turn to others for help, I will not allow them to tell me what I should or should not be thinking, feeling, or doing.

Grief and Children

Talking to Your Child About a Suicide Death

The death of a loved one is the most difficult life event that many children ever experience. A death due to suicide can be especially hard to face. Parents and caregivers may feel overwhelmed as they try to decide what to tell their children about a suicide death while struggling with their own grief over how the person died. We have found the following tips to be useful to caregivers in preparing to tell their children about a suicide death and helping children to grieve in healthy ways.

Suicide Grief

Coping with Parent Suicide

The death of a parent is both complicated and painful for children. A parent’s death by suicide increases the complexity of the situation even more.

Suicide Grief

How to Get Through Hard Days

On days that are hard, focus on what is most important, you. The long list of things that need to get done or people to contact can wait. You have to take care of yourself and prioritize your health and wellbeing. Somedays are about surviving and that is ok.

Suicide Grief

On Grief

Grief is the reaction we have to loss. This can show up in many different ways. It is important to pay attention to those affects on our body, heart, and mind.

Suicide Grief

Suicide Is Different

When a loved one dies by suicide there are often different reactions to someone who has died by other means.

Suicide Grief

Suicide in the Workplace

Most people who die by suicide are of working age, thus the workplace can provide a good opportunity for suicide prevention efforts. Workplaces offer their employees social connections and a sense of purpose that may help to provide protective factors against suicide.

Suicide Grief

Exploring the Truths about Suicide Grief

There are many misconceptions around suicide grief, what it is and what it isn't. Here are some 'Truths' from one survivor to another.

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