Bereavement links

Links for those who are bereaved ........

To those recently bereaved, we offer our sympathies and understand what you are experiencing. We hope you will draw some comfort from the links and information found on this page.

Cruse Bereavement Care

For offering face to face support and practical help in coping with the pain of bereavement, Cruse Bereavement Care is the largest UK charity and probably the first UK organisation that comes to mind. It offers a daytime helpline, a helpline email address, (both given below), and has many local branches run by trained volunteers. These are in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and The Isle of Man. The telephone number of the York branch is: 01904 481162. Click on the banner to be taken to their website, where you can find more information.
Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland is a related but separate organisation.

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The Child Bereavement Charity

From their website: "Grief, in its many forms, is one of the most painful experiences that anyone can suffer, and every year it is experienced by thousands of families in the UK........The Child Bereavement Charity is the UK’s leading charity that supports families and educates professionals both when a child dies and when a child is bereaved. Every year the charity trains around 5000 professionals across health care, social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary sector. It also provides a support and information service, award-winning resources, an interactive website with online forums, and a Buckinghamshire-based family bereavement support service."
Click the banner below to be taken to their website.

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One Candle.net

Dr Annette Childs has worked with dying people for over 20 years. This has privileged her with great insight into the dying process and what lies beyond. A visit to her website, 'One Candle.net', is recommended. You will find it both comforting and uplifting.
Dr Childs has produced three books and an audio programme. In her words:
"Aside from birth, death is the one universal experience that we will all encounter. Although it is a topic many avoid, when it is approached with candor and insight fear is transformed into wisdom.
The lessons, stories, and anecdotes in this course come not from sterile academic theories, but instead from the dying themselves. Spend one day exploring 'life near death', and you will gain simple but profound ways to understand the dying process and minimize fear and anxiety. Your new found wisdom is like one candle; a light that can be passed to others: your loved ones, those that you care-give, and clientele if you are a helping professional."
There is a link on her site that will allow you to hear her giving an introduction to her work. Click the image below to access her website. On YouTube you can watch a video of Dr Childs talking about "After Death Communications", which contains important information for the bereaved. In another video she talks about "end of life experiences", collected from her long experience of working with the dying and the bereaved. These videos are brought to you by the American "Open to Hope TV" part of the "Open to Hope Foundation", founded by Dr Heidi Horsley and her mother Dr Gloria Horsley.

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Forever Family Foundation.org

Where science and spirituality work hand in hand to find answers for the world and bring comfort to the bereaved

Forever Family Foundation.org is an American organisation. Its mission statement is:
1) To establish the existence of the continuity of the family, even though a member has left the physical world.
2) To stimulate thought among the curious, those questioning their relationship to the universe, and people who are looking for explanations of certain phenomena.
3) To financially support the continued research into survival of consciousness and Afterlife Science.
4) To provide a forum where individuals and families who have suffered the loss of a loved one can turn for support, information, and hope through state-of-the-art information and services provided by ongoing research into the survival of consciousness and Afterlife Science.
Clicking the image below will take you to their home page. Their section on "Grief and Loss", which has several pages, is recommended to those still suffering the pain of bereavement. Anyone may be interested in the fascinating broadcasts of "Signs of Life Radio" which they produce. - It can be listened to live on the internet on Thursday 12 midnight to 1:00am Friday, UK time, but don't worry, past broadcasts are archived here. Their quarterly email newsletter is interesting reading, and you can sign up for it on this page.