Death of a Relative

1. Alive Alone
An organization for educational and charitable purposes, to benefit bereaved parents whose only child or all children are deceased by providing a self-help network and publications to promote communication and healing.

2. Baby Steps
Named after the baby steps that form the long and difficult road to recovery from the loss of a child. No parent, relative or friend is immune from the pain that results from the loss of a young loved one.

3. The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization which offers friendship and understanding to families who are grieving the death of a child of any age, from any cause.

4. Hygeia
Using new technology to share age-old feelings and lessons, Hygeia® provides the most comprehensive resource and largest international online community for families experiencing the grief and sorrow which accompany the loss of a pregnancy or newborn child and the angst of parenting and caring for critically ill neonates or children.

5. Lamenting Sons: Fathers and Grief
Some thoughts and resources for parents grieving children lost to illness, accidents, homicide, suicide, and other tragedies.

6. Mothers in Sympathy and Support
A nonprofit, volunteer based organization committed to providing emergency support to parents after the death of their baby: stillbirth, neonatal death, premature birth, congenital anomalies, SIDS, and any child's death.

7. Parents of Murdered Children
The only national helping organization which is specifically for the survivors of homicide victims and which follows up with supportive family services after the murder of a family member or friend

8. SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support
Serving those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death.

9. T*A*P*S
National non-profit organization made up of, and providing services to, all those who have lost a loved one while serving in the Armed Forces.

10. WidowNet
An information and self-help resource for and by widows and widowers. Topics covered include grief, bereavement, recovery, and other information helpful to people of all ages, religious backgrounds and sexual orientations, who have suffered the death of a spouse or life partner.

11. Adjusting to the Loss of a Parent
A Consumer Resources article from the National Funeral Directors Association.

12. Dealing with the Loss of a Parent
A Consumer Resources article from the National Funeral Directors Association.

13. Fathers Grieve Too
Focusing on the particular aspects of grief experienced by fathers.

14. Grief Reactions Associated with the Death of a Parent
Even if distance, conflict, illness or something else has meant you have not seen much of your parent, after their death you may find that you still have powerful feelings of grief.

15. When Your Parent Dies
A Consumer Education Series Brochure from the National Funeral Directors Association.