ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

After a Suicide, Here’s What Happens to the People Left Behind

By Alia E. Dastagir — 2018

Loss survivors – the close family and friends left behind after a suicide – number six to 32 for each death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meaning that in 2017 alone, as many as 1.5 million people unwillingly became part of this group.

Read on www.usatoday.com

FindCenter Post-Image

A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit

Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Preventable Tragedies of Suicide

The pattern of highly accomplished and successful people committing suicide is transfixing. It assures the rest of us that a life of accolades is not all that it’s cracked up to be and that achieving more will not make us happier.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Lessons Learned: Forty Years of Clinical Work with Suicide Loss Survivors

After briefly reviewing some of the empirical literature about differences between suicide bereavement and grief after other modes of death, the author argues that perhaps the most distinguishing and difficult aspect of a suicide loss is the “perceived intentionality” of the death, and the...

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Suicide Survivors Face Grief, Questions, Challenges

The recent, untimely deaths of Kate Spade, reportedly from depression-related suicide, and of Anthony Bourdain, also from apparent suicide, came as a surprise to many.

FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Suicide Loss Survivor