If you are dependent on your parents, you will most like feel more at lost and more devastated. This article will explore both of these aspects and give suggestions in how to survive through the grief process. Another devastating tragedy is the lost of a child. Parental mourning for a child can be the most intense and long lasting type of mourning. The most recent year data that is available from the National Center for Health Statistics is 1998.
Guilt is felt by all parents when their child dies.
They feel that they are the protector and believe that they will not outlive their children. In this article, parents share their stories of tragedy and how they deal with the great lost of their child. The story of Pat Loder, the only survivor, who had her two children, Stephanie and Stephen, died in a car accident. She bears no obvious marks of tragedy, however, she suffers everyday with the guilt and the pain that her children are gone. She felt no sense of reality until she finally heard that she was not alone.