What is a Suicide Survivor?
Statistics show that for every suicide, there are nine “survivors” left behind. Survivors can include family and close friends of the deceased. I had never known anyone personally that committed suicide; yet when my father did it, my rank went right up there to top of the list. I was confused, distraught and totally lost. Reading this book by Adrina Wrobleski really helped me find my way through my grief, and helped me to understand why my father chose to end his own life. What is in the book? The book is a paperback, 154 pages, broken down into eight chapters that are entitled: The Worst Has Happened; Dealing With Other People; Why Is This Grief So Different?; The Many Pains Of Grief; Anger, Blame and Guilt; Who Do You Tell? What Do You Say?; Relationships; and Recovering And Going On. Each chapter is broken down into a few parts each which deal with specific insights to grief as experienced by survivors of suicide. It deals with the fears, the stages of grief (including shock and den
