Bereavement

A death often touches many lives. As someone who is important to your loved one, you have been given a leading role in this final play. But you may be unsure how best to help. Maybe it's about being open and honest, or acknowledging their wishes. At this emotional time, it's OK to accept help if you need it.

• Supporting someone who is dying
• Being kind to yourself
• Catholic prayers for the dead

Grief is a natural reaction to loss, and can be overwhelmingly painful, as well as different for each of us. Understanding the process of bereavement will not prevent this pain, or reduce its intensity, but it can help to chart a path back to some kind of normal life.

• Loss and trauma in the time of the pandemic
• After the death of a child
• Coping with bereavement and grief
• Grief after suicide
• National Grief Awareness Week
• Julia Samuel, psychotherapist and author on bereavement and grief