On the Death of a Child

Parents Must:

Face the finality of the loss;

Remember the past memories and experiences with their child;

Sort out what aspects of their child they can keep and what they must let go;

Deal with a sense of failure and personal diminishment;

Build a life for themselves without their child.


Allow yourself two years to get to where your child is not at the center of your awareness all the time.  Then it is another two years before your life is relatively back on track.

Advice from a book given September 2009