Resources
Websites offering support and information:
- CaringBridge: Free personalized web sites for family and friends during significant life events.
- Centering Corporation and Grief Digest Magazine: Dedicated to providing education on grief and loss for professionals and the families they serve.
- Compassionate Friends: Grief support after the death of a child.
- Grief Watch: Resources for bereaved families and professional caregivers.
- HAND Online: Helping After Neonatal Death
- The Healing Center of Seattle: Their mission is to provide a safe, supportive, confidential, and nurturing environment for people to move through their grief. Its sole purpose is to provide support to individuals, families and youth who are struggling with loss.
- The Journey Program at Seattle Children's Hospital provides grief support for families whose child has died.
- MISS Foundation: Mothers In Sympathy and Support
- Nalanda West sponsors a special interfaith conference entitled, "Dying Well: Sacred Rituals and Caring Communities."
- Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County's Carousel Program for children and their families.
- Providence Health Stepping Stones Program: Open to any child with a life-limiting illness in King County.
- Silent Grief: Support for all who have suffered miscarriage and later child loss.
- Tears Foundation: Offering financial resources to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services.
Websites related to specific illnesses, diseases or causes of death:
- Anencephaly Support Foundation
- Birth Defects Research for Children, Inc.
- Cancer Patient Care: Provides extensive social service support to cancer patients and their families in the Spokane area who have limited financial resources.
- Candlelighters: Childhood Cancer Foundation
More Websites:
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- Gilda's Club of Seattle: Named in tribute to the late comic actress Gilda Radner who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, is a community meeting place for people living with cancer, their families and friends.
- Think Pink Photography: Supports individuals and their families who have been touched by breast cancer.
- CureSearch: National Childhood Cancer Foundation
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- March of Dimes: One of the nation’s largest non-profits devoted solely to preventing birth defects and reducing infant mortality.
- Missing Grace: Education about and prevention of stillbirth.
- National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association
- PBSO: Bereavement support services for parents adjusting to a new life after miscarriage, medical termination, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or infant death.
- SOFT: Support Organization for Trisomy 18, 13 and Related Disorders
- The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
Books
There are an abundance of titles that deal with grief, loss and coping.
Many of the sites listed above contain very extensive lists of quality
books. Click here to see a list of some of the books that have been read and recommended by members of the Soulumination family.
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"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." - Robert Ingersoll