Resource Tag: FILIAL LOSS

This book is written by a mother who lost her 20-year-old son to suicide. It tells his story as well as the experiences of other families mourning the loss of a child to suicide.

“The Coldest Night” tells the story of a mother’s loss of her 22-year-old son to suicide. The story begins from the moment she learned of her son’s death, through the post-mortem, the funeral, & the subsequent months of bewilderment & shock as she & her family tried to come to terms with a changed life […]

The author, formerly a quarterback in the National Football League, lost his 15-year-old son to suicide. In this book, Hipple discusses not only his grief journey but also his struggle with and recovery from depression.

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In this book, the author reflects on the life of his son who died by suicide at the age of 20. Although their lives had many parallel experiences, the father received help for himself while his son did not.

With a diverse sample of 462 parent survivors of a child’s suicide, the authors explored the association of the personal growth subscale of the Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist with mental health problems among longer-term survivors. Additional validation for this scale’s association with longer-term survivorship & reduced grief difficulties is offered. In addition, its negative relationship […]

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Susan Woitas wrote the first poem in her collection “Lost Lives” after losing her 17-year-old son to suicide in November 1997 & the last poem in December 2005, three years after the death of her second son, who also died by suicide at the age of 17. In addition to presenting Woitas’s poetry, this paper […]

This book is a collection of poems. The author is the survivor of multiple suicides in her family, including the loss of her two sons.

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This study of parents bereaved by their sons’ suicides drew on psychological autopsy data but used qualitative analytic methods. 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Some parents represented their sons as victims who were cruelly destroyed by external forces while others portrayed them as agents of their own destruction. Either way, their narratives were dominated by […]

In this book, the author uses poetry to express her grief at the loss of her son (and only child) to suicide. The book also provides information on support groups, website, & getting help for those who think they have no hope for the future.

13 cases from 1995-1998 were retrospectively identified from a larger project on adolescent unnatural death in northern Sweden. 10 families agreed to participate in open interviews. These took place 15-25 months after the suicide & data gathered was analyzed according to a grounded theory model. At the time of the interview, the families were still […]

This paper reports on a qualitative study of 6 mothers who lost one child & 1 mother who lost two children, over the age of 16, to suicide. Participants were interviewed about important components of their maternal identity, the psychological & social implications of losing their child to suicide & strategies for managing the difficulties […]

This book presents a biographical testimonial of a father’s experience of his son’s suicide. Sanchez’s narrative interweaves autobiography, a biography of his son’s struggle with mental illness, a review of diagnostic tools used by psychiatrists for mental disorders, fictional accounts of the lives & deaths by suicide of historical personages & fictional characters, & a […]

This book is the author’s faith journey from the despair caused by her daughter’s suicide back to hope & joy. Her story reveals how she learned to survive the mixed emotions of loss, anger, guilt, fear, & shame.

This book recounts the author’s grief after her daughter’s death by suicide. Her story is interwoven with those of other survivors. Various aspects of grief are discussed in alphabetical order, including acceptance, anger, anniversaries, blame, communication, comparisons, counselling, denial, depression, forgiveness, friends, getting on with life, good-byes, guilt, healing, helplessness, holidays, loneliness/isolation, measuring progress, memories, […]

In this book, the author openly discusses his family’s struggle to survive the suicide of his oldest child, the things that sustained them during the initial shock, & the heling process that enabled them to commence their journey towards wellness. The book also is meant to help those who minister to people who are grieving.

This book was written by Collins for her own healing & for that of others. Her son died by suicide in 1992 & this book is a reflection of what she has read & learned about suicide since then.

In this collection of interviews with survivors of suicide, individuals talk candidly about how their lives were impacted by the suicide of a family member or close friend. Over 50 individuals shared their stories. The final chapter of the book includes stories, essays, & poems written by survivors.