Year: 2010 Source: Qualitative Health Research, v.20, no.7, (July 2010), 10pp. SIEC No: 20100639

This article presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring what suicide survivors in Taiwan experienced after a family member’s suicide & how they adjusted to the perceived stigma. 15 suicide survivors participated in the study. It was found that when a family member’s suicide death occurred, survivors first kept a low profile when holding the funeral & then tried to expel the dead person from their family. They also wished that the grief & painful, shameful feelings could be buried with the dead person. Findings suggest health care professionals need to work more closely with suicide survivors through understanding the survivors’ fear & pain from a sociocultural perspective & to help them constuct a new moral life. (38 refs.)