The death of any child overwhelms that child's parents regardless of the cause of death or the age of the child. Parental grief is intense, long-lasting and complex. Many believe that this grief, desolation, and pain exceed all other bereavement experiences a person encounters in a lifetime.
Bereaved parents are completely bewildered and find it and find it difficult just to function.
When a parent faces the death of an only child or the death of the last child or children, bereavement is compounded by additional issues that ultimately must be resolved if healing is to occur. Now Childless Suddenly we are childless. The new and total silence in our lives is unbroken. The lack of surviving children is but one additional heartbreaking issue that initially deepens our devastation. However our children have died, the joy we knew in sharing their lives is forever gone.