Jack Jordan is a psychologist in private practice in Sherborn, Massachusetts, where he specializes in working with loss and bereavement. He is also the founder and Director of the Family Loss Project, a research and clinical group providing services for bereaved families. He has worked with survivors of suicide and other losses for more than [...]

Losing five loved ones in nine months turned into a battle for survival. I have spent months on grief work and there is still more work to do. Though 17 months have passed since the first death in the family, there are times -- unexpected, surprising times -- when I regress. "Did all of this really happen?" I ask myself.

Award-winning poet Pamela Papka Sexton touches on the experience of losing her mother (In the Mirror) and her father (Two Rivers). "The mirror doesn't lie/She is closer than she seems," Sexton writes of her mother. Of her father: "I look toward Round Top/and know he is there, stitched/in a tuxedo."

The older you get the more loss you are going to experience and this loss will take many forms including friends, family, and even co-workers and people from around your neighborhood. Death is a part of life, but it doesn't mean that grief gets any easier to handle. Losing those that you love and care about is difficult at any age but many seniors feel like they are losing everyone around them and this makes every loss even more profound.

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I lost my son at 27 of a heart attack my heart is breaking his funurel was yesterday god help me be strong

A Mother Remembers by Kim Hodne At first, the fear of forgetting you Consumed my thoughts Now I know it’s not possible For a mother to ever forget her child Would the loss of you be all that’s left me? Outweighing the joyful times No longer a mother Being there for you But slowly the happy memories are stronger With the passage of time Flooding in images [...]

We are so very sorry for your loss. Six months is such a very short time after losing your six year old son and we know that your pain is enormous. It must feel like the bottom has dropped out of your life and there is just nothing that can hold you up anymore. What you are experiencing is felt by many who have lost a child, specially when it was in such a tragic and sudden way.

By JoAnne Funch There are many lessons I have learned through loss, and I am coming to understand now that I probably knew these lessons all along, in other words they were within me, my core, who I am. However it took the tragedy of loss for me to remember those lessons and have the courage [...]

Suicide survivor Carol Loehr shares what others often say when they learn that her son died by suicide. She advocates for educating people about the neurological illnesses that cause suicide.