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Feelings and thoughts following death by suicide

Feelings and thoughts following a death by suicide

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When someone dies by suicide, children and adults may experience a number of complicated and often conflicting emotions that can feel difficult to manage. You may feel angry at the person who died at the same time as feelings protective and loving. You may feel sadness and pain as well ...
Explaining suicide to children

How to explain suicide to children and young people

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Telling a child someone they love has died is difficult enough, but explaining that they died by suicide can be even harder. Often adults don’t want to talk about suicide, but we know from our experience that it is better to tell a child or young person the truth in ...
Talking about suicide in the news

Talking to children and young people about suicide in the news

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It is a sad fact that suicide rates are tragically on the rise in the UK. Stories are regularly reported in the media, widely communicated in person and across social media, resulting in exposure to sometimes quite distressing reports. When these sorts of events hit the news, it’s important to think ...
Talking about sudden death

Talking about sudden death with children and young people

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When someone in your life dies, feelings of grief can be overwhelming. These feelings may be even more difficult to handle if the death is sudden, traumatic or violent. There are many types of sudden death – it could be through an illness, an accident, murder, manslaughter or suicide. How might ...

When someone in your family dies by suicide

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It can feel hard to find the right words to talk about suicide. Why is this? Because every life lost to suicide is as unique as the person who died and what words feel right for one family often don’t feel right for another. Whether the death of their important ...
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