Survivor and bereavement chat rooms are typically staffed by volunteer hosts during all scheduled chats. They are there to help and to keep intruders from making a room unpleasant for users. Hosts are all grieving too, and are familiar with grief in its many forms. Although many of us have some training in crisis intervention, that is not our job. You can only receive list mail if you are subscribed, and in most cases, you must be subscribed before you can post messages to a list.
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These are wonderful for establishing and maintaining contact with others who understand your survivor grief and experiences. Please read this carefully because every list is different. Some lists are fairly open and anyone can join. Some list subscriptions are screened and added manually by list owners. There is no fail-safe way to ensure people on the list are who they say they are and have suffered the loss they describe.