Have you lost a loved one?
What action have you taken to honor their memory and their life?
How do you keep the love you shared with them alive?
Whether your loved one died of natural causes, disease or even by suicide, survivors, mourners and the grief stricken look for ways to keep the memory of those who [...]
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Neil Chethik, one of the editors at Open to Hope, contacted me last month to ask permission to post my article Suicide Survivor’s Guilt on their web site.
Open to Hope provides information and resources for people who have experienced loss. They provide a forum where people who have experienced loss can learn from and help each other and [...]
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Part 3 of my Suicide Awareness and Survivor Support series focuses on the guilt survivors of suicide experience. In this case, I talk about my guilt for not taking the handgun my friend Jim used to kill himself.
This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want to hit the pass button on this one. [...]
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