Suicide creates a grief unlike any other. An important part of grieving and healing for suicide loss survivors is celebrating the life of the loved one who died. It can be helpful to be able to talk about your loved one and share stories and photographs with others.

ADDITIONAL IDEAS

• Connect with Crisis Connections. https://www.crisisconnections.org/wasas/ They offer programs to help survivors navigate complicated grief due to a suicide loss, including a CC Cares Package, Grief Companion Mentor, and bereavement support groups.
• Share about your loved one through writing or art. If you wish, share it with someone else in a way that feels right to you.
• Volunteer for a program that meant something to your loved one or that works to improve the behavioral health of others.
• Ask your loved one’s relatives, friends, or co-workers to contribute their favorite memories or photos, and use them to make a scrapbook or memory box. This can help you to celebrate your loved one’s life while giving others a chance to get involved, too.
• Cook your loved one’s favorite meal, participate in activities they liked, listen to music they enjoyed, or read a book or watch a movie that reminds you of them.
• Participate in a community Out of Darkness Walk  in honor of your loved one through the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
• Support another behavioral health organization working to address suicide.
• Explore more helpful resources:

https://988lifeline.org/help-yourself/loss-survivors/

https://afsp.org/story/grieving-a-suicide-loss-eight-things-i-know-for-sure

https://jedfoundation.org/resource/ive-lost-someone-to-suicide/

PARTNER WITH FOREFRONT SUICIDE PREVENTION

Honor your loved one by making a gift to Forefront to support our ongoing suicide prevention efforts. The Forefront Suicide Prevention fund supports all of Forefront’s work, including training programs, work in schools, Safer Homes, veterans, research, public policy advocacy, and general fund operations. Learn more about supporting Forefront’s work here.

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