Investigate with your audience how to interact with children when a death occurs. Discuss what to tell and what not to tell a child about death, what reactions to expect and how to help a child cope with death. Dealing with death is never easy. Share with your audience tips from funeral directors about the normal, lonely and frightening emotions to expect and ways to get through the special grief. Sudden deaths that are especially hard to accept include infant death, parent death, suicides, violent death and co-worker death.
Death can tear one s world apart, and grieving is the process that helps put it back together.
Review the devastating emotions a grieving person endures, the best ways to begin working through grief and the important role the funeral ceremony plays in healing. Explore the close relationship between hospice caregivers and funeral directors, who together provide great understanding and support to the family. Explore with your audience what they can do to help someone who has experienced a recent death of a loved one. Many people don't like going to funerals or don't know what to say to the family at a funeral. Some people will even avoid contact with a recent widow because they're uncomfortable about what to say or how to act.