Mission: To support people coping with the shock, grief, and complex emotions following the loss of a loved one to suicide, and to provide pathways toward healing and hope.
🧠Emotional Support Resources
General Suicide Grief
Curated articles and guides to help understand and cope with unique grief experiences following a suicide loss:
- What Do We Do Now? — Practical steps immediately after a loss.
- When People Ask How They Can Help — Guidance for navigating offers of support with dignity and clarity.
- Understanding Suicide Grief — Articles exploring emotional responses and meaning-making after loss.
- 25 Suggestions for Survivors — Helpful ideas for coping and self-care.
- Suicide Loss Survivor Affirmation & Griever’s Bill of Rights — Words of validation and support.
- Dealing with the Effects of Trauma — Understanding trauma reactions and support strategies.
Each of these pieces helps survivors feel less alone, navigate their grief journey, and connect with meaning and hope.
đź“š Books & Reading Materials
LOSS provides recommendations for grief and healing books — spanning general grief support, trauma insight, and narratives that offer validation and compassion for survivors:
- After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief
- Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss
- Healing after the Suicide of a Loved One
- Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide
- A Long-Shadowed Grief: Suicide and Its Aftermath …and more curated titles.
These books cover emotional support, trauma recovery, meaning-making after loss, and diverse survivor perspectives.
👶 Supporting Children & Teens
Specialized content to help adults support young people grieving a suicide loss, including:
- Articles like After a Loved One Dies – How Children Grieve
- Age-appropriate books such as Why?: A Story for Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to Suicide
- Youth-focused resources on talking about grief and loss with children and teens.
These resources help caregivers talk with kids about death, understand emotional reactions, and provide comfort.
đź‘Ą Loss-Specific Guides
LOSS’s resources include tailored sections for people who have lost:
- A Spouse/Partner
- A Parent
- A Sibling
- A Child
Each section combines compassionate writing with practical pointers for handling day-to-day life after a profound loss.
🧩 Additional Tools
LOSS’s “Resources” page also includes:
- Handbooks & guides, like the Suicide Loss Survivor Handbook
- Practical coping tools and reading lists
- Links to articles on how to help someone grief after suicide
- Information on trauma reactions and self-care practices.
đź’» Online & Community Support
In addition to written resources, LOSS Community Services offers:
- Support groups — both in-person and virtual (connect with other survivors).
- Peer support and companioning — one-to-one connection with trained volunteers who are themselves loss survivors.
- Remembrance events — butterfly releases, breakfasts, and community gatherings that foster healing and connection.
- Training and education — for workplaces, schools, and community organizations on postvention and prevention.
đź“ž Immediate Support
If you or someone is in crisis:
Call or text 988 — Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (U.S.)
Text HOME to 741741 — Crisis Text Line
