Finding Hope When a Child Dies

What Other Cultures Can Teach Us

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The death of a child is an overwhelming loss. "Why did my child die?" and "Is my child suffering now?" are questions that all people, of all cultures and backgrounds, ask. But characteristic of Western culture is a limited language for expressing grief, and a consuming guilt that undermines the recovery process. Dr. Sukie Miller, author of the landmark work After Death, turns to the beliefs and healing stories of other cultures to present a unique perspective that is both surprising and comforting. Sharing her research with a compassionate and grounded voice, she offers hope to those seeking meaning in what seems senseless, and heartening possibilities for returning to wholeness, even if we feel life cannot ever be the same.
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  • Touchstone | 
  • 208 pages | 
  • ISBN 9780684865614 | 
  • August 2002
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Introduction: Questions When a Child Dies


The loss of our children affects us for as long as those children might have lived. We recall them at every empty milestone in the future -- her senior prom, his graduation from high school -- and years later, as the children of our friends live their rites of passage, we think, "It might have been my daughter marrying today" or "My son will never have children of his own."


It is this last aspect of grieving for a child that touched me most when I worked with bereaved parents, other family members, and even close friends who were long past their first raw grief over the death...

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