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Bereaved Parents and Siblings Need Someone Who Understands
THE DEATH OF A CHILD - Parents don't like to even think about it. It is too unimaginable, too painful. The Compassionate Friends offers understanding, support and even hope.
THE DEATH OF A CHILD
Parents don’t like to even think about it. It is too unimaginable, too painful even in just the concept form. But it happens. One second they have a living breathing child and then death ends a life and the child is no longer part of the earth. At that very moment, everything in their lives changes. They Change. Hopes, Dreams. Future. All Different. Often Gone. What then? How do they find a way to go on living? What does a parent do after the death of their child, no matter the age of the child, no matter the reason for the death?
THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS
The Compassionate Friends is a worldwide peer-to-peer support group that reaches out to parents who have experienced this tragedy, and offers friendship, solace, compassion, and perhaps, best of all, Understanding. It is an UGLY CLUB, having our child die; no matter our spiritual or religious beliefs; no matter if we even can envision then in a “better place” that what we have on the earth…. Parents want our children to be HERE WITH US, to be alive and well and happy with us. None of us want to be Bereaved Parents. We just want to Be Parents. Over and over we read how wives and husbands who lose their spouses are called widows and widowers. We know that children who lose their parents are called orphans. But there is no word for the parent whose child dies…another ugly reality that we face everyday for the rest of our lives.
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The Compassionate Friends (TCF) reaches out to offer understanding and caring to families who have experienced the death of a child from any age, from pre-birth to full maturity. In Connecticut there are 8 chapters, meeting on different nights in different regions, welcoming bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings or anyone in the family circle who experienced that type of close relationship. TCF East of the River CT Chapter was founded in October by a small group of bereaved parents and siblings, bonding together in comfort and understanding, and wish to offer that to others. We deal with the reality of how to go about trying to live after our loved one is not. We deal with trying to find Hope and Light amidst the darkest of our days.
