Suicide Support Websites

• There are numerous sites online for suicide support. These sites contain information about suicide prevention, grief and healing after a suicide, activities and locations of local support groups. Click here for a collection of some of the more useful online suicide support sites.

Grief Support Websites

• There are many online sites that specifically deal with grief. Several of these groups focus on specific types of grief such as suicide grief, grief in children. Many of them have online foruns where you can discuss your grief and your journey of healing with others who have also suffered the loss of a loved one. Click here for a collection of some of the more useful online grief support sites.

Local Grief Support Groups:

• The Survivors of Suicide Loss support group in Madison provides a safe environment to discuss the issues you face when dealing with the suicide of a loved one. Often people also seek additional specialized Grief support groups to help them heal from their loss. There are many Grief and Bereavement groups and professional counseling centers in New Jersey. Click here for a list of local grief support groups.

Finding Clinical Support:

• Often the loss of a loved one to suicide is an overwhelming emotional experience. It is common for many survivors to seek professional treatment from a physician or other licensed clinical professional such as a psychiatrist or psychologist. Here are some ways to help to find a professional that is right for you. For more information about finding professional support Click Here.

Facebook / Social Media

• There are many Facebook and other social media support groups available for you to learn more about suicide and there are are numerous support groups for survivors. Click here for more information

Videos

• Click Here for a collection of videos for Survivors of suicide. The videos help you understand suicide and how survivors regain control of their lives after the suicide of a loved one. They range from survivors telling their journey of healing, to professionals discussing the grief process and the causes and challenges of suicide.

Faith Based Support Groups

• For help finding faith based support groups in the area click here. Often Churches, Synagogues or Spiritual Leaders have local programs to help deal with the grief and bereavement associated with the death of a loved one.

Help for Professionals Dealing With Suicide

• Often many professionals are called on to provide assistance to help provide support after a suicide loss. Clergy, Religious Leaders, Funeral Directors, Schools, Teachers, Law Enforcement Officers, Fire Department, Emergency Medical Service and other clinical professionals all play a role in helping the bereavement process for those suffering from a suicide loss. For more information about how professionals can provide assistance and also learn more about suicide please click here.

Other Online Information:

Where to Begin

• Where Do I Begin?

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention entry page for newly bereaved. Why did this happen? After losing someone to suicide, you may find yourself asking over and over again, "Why?" Suicide is complicated, but from research we know a lot about it.

• Tips for The Newly Bereaved After Suicide

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: Twelve tips about dealing with suicide grief. Grieving is a unique, lonely, extremely painful process with each individual working through their own space at their own pace, but it is comforting to know what helped others who have experienced the anguish in the aftermath of a loved one's suicide.

• 15 Things I Wish I Knew About Grief

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: A list of fifteen things the author wished she knew about grief when she started grieving the loss of her loved one. Her lessons learned and mistakes to avoid.

• Survivors of Suicide Loss Fact Sheet (2014)

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

  • Summary: American Association of Suicidology sheet discussing suicide grief

• Suggestions for Helping Yourself Survive

  • Resource: 3 page Word Document

• Suggestions for Coping as a Family

  • Resource: 1 page Word document

• In Times of Grief and Loss - A Family Manifesto

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

• Beyond Surviving: Suggestions for Survivors

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

• Surviving A Suicide Loss: A Resource And Healing Guide

  • Resource: 32 page PDF

• Surviving a Suicide Loss: A Financial Guide

  • Resource: 35 page PDF

How To Help A Survivor of Suicide

• Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

  • Summary: Tips and activities for how you can help a friend or family member heal from the impact of suicide on their lives written by a well known grief counselor Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D., C.T., www.centerforloss.com

• Helping Survivors of Suicide: What Can You Do?

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

• Suggestions for Helping a Survivor

  • Resource: 2 page Word document

• HOW CAN I HELP? Responses to Survivors Of Suicide

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

• Do's and Don'ts for Comforting Grieving Families After a Suicide

  • Resource: Article

  • Summary: The best advice to anyone who wants to comfort a suicide survivor is: "Show up, let them see you care, and respect the griever's right to feel bad for a while (guilt, anger, sadness, etc.). Too many survivors reported "friends" who avoided them altogether after their loved ones' suicides rather than to risk saying the wrong thing. Please don't do that, because that hurts most of all.

• Providing Good Support for Close Friends with Complicated Grief

  • Resource: Website

• Information for Friends and Family

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: "Caring for and supporting someone who has lost a loved one to suicide can be difficult. Many feel unable to provide adequate support and struggle to understand the depth of distress. Some have difficulty in knowing what to say or do and feel awkward, uncomfortable and concerned about saying the wrong thing. "

• Bringing Hope and Comfort: How To Help A Person Who Has Witnessed A Public Suicide

  • Resource: Webpage

• Tips For Family and Friends How can I be supportive?

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

• How to Help Someone Who is Suffering From Loss

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

• 12 Simple Ways to Support a Grieving Friend this Holiday Season

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: In the spirit of simplicity and kindness, we have compiled a list of 12 simple and memorable ways to support a grieving loved one this holiday season. This list comes from the suggestions submitted by our online community.

Witnessing or Discovering a Suicide

• When You Witness A Suicide

  • Resource: Blog Post

• For people who have witnessed a suicide death

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary For Suicide Witness Survivors

• New Approaches To Helping The Witness To A Suicide:

  • Resource: 7 Page PDF

• Witnessing a Traumatic Event

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: After witnessing a traumatic event, you can expect to experience some strong emotional or physical reactions. In some cases, you might suffer both emotional and physical reactions.

• The Haunting Effects Of Witnessing A Suicide

  • Resource: Blog Post

• Grief and First on the Scene

  • Resource: Webpage

• Home Blessing: Love, Hope and a Wish for Peace

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

Dealing with Guilt and Shame

• “You Can’t Do Everything”: Limitations in Helping a Suicidal Person

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• “If Only”: Self-Blame After a Loved One’s Suicide

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• “Shame Festers in Dark Places”: Keeping Suicide Secret

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• Our View: Keeping suicide a secret adds to people’s suffering

  • Resource: Article

• Suicide: the painful truth

  • Resource: Article

  • Summary: How do you tell children about suicide? When they are already bereaved, won't it make things worse by telling them what really happened? But if you don't tell them – that is, in your desire to protect them, you make something up – how will that work out later, when they find out the truth? When is the right time? How do you approach it? If you tell them too soon, it will blow their minds – but if you tell them too late, it will blow their trust. Meanwhile, the information sits inside you like a toxic leaden lump.

Dealing With Suicide Notes

• Healing from a spiteful suicide note

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• Uwritten Goodbyes: When there is no suicide note

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• Suicide: Finding Hope -Suicide Notes

  • Resource: Webpage

• Last words: Suicide notes leave as many questions as answers for survivors

  • Resource: Article

• Suicide Notes On Social Media

  • Resource: Article

• Wikipedia Article on Suicide Notes

  • Resource: Wikipedia Article

How to Talk About a Suicide Loss

• Best Practices for Presentations by Suicide Loss and Suicide Attempt Survivors

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

  • Summary: Special Considerations for Telling Your Own Story

• Talking About Someone You Love Who Has Died by Suicide

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

• Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: The Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide were developed by leading experts in suicide prevention and in collaboration with several international suicide prevention and public health organizations, schools of journalism, media organizations and key journalists as well as Internet safety experts. The recommendations are based on more than 50 international studies on suicide contagion.

• Media Guidelines For The Reporting of Suicide

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: Developed by The Samaritans, an international Suicide prevention organization. Samaritans’ Media Guidelines for Reporting Suicide (pdf) have been produced following extensive consultation with journalists and editors throughout the industry. They are aimed at those reporting suicide in any media, from factual description to dramatic portrayal.

• Media Guidelines for School Administrators Who May Interact with Reporters about Youth Suicide

  • Resource: Webpage

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Suicide Grief

• Exploring the Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief

  • Resource: Article

  • Summary: Exploring 10 reasons why suicide grief is different from ordinary grief by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

• Grief After Suicide

  • Resource: 12 page PDF

  • Summary: Your grief after a suicide may feel quite different than the grief you have felt after other kinds of losses. Usually the death of someone from suicide has a much more intense and long lasting impact. When someone you know dies from suicide you struggle with complex social, emotional and cultural issues that can make your grief overwhelming and isolating.

• Understanding Grief

  • Resource: 26 page PDF

  • Summary: Hospice Foundation for America training presentation about grief after the death of a loved one.

• Dispelling the Misconceptions About Suicide and Grief and Mourning

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: A discussion about the 17 misconceptions many people have. As you journey through the wilderness of your suicide grief, if you mourn openly and authentically, you will come to find a path that feels right for you. That is your path to healing. But beware others may try to pull you off this path. They may try to make you believe that the path you have chosen is wrong even crazy and that their way is better. The reason that people try to pull you from the path is that they have internalized some common misconceptions about suicide grief and mourning. And the misconceptions, in essence, deny you your right to hurt and authentically express your grief. They often cause unrealistic expectations about the grief experience. To integrate this loss into your soul, you must first be willing to unlearn the following misconceptions about suicide and grief and mourning.

• Grief After Suicide

  • Resource: 6 page PDF

  • Summary:

• Grief After Suicide Blog

  • Resource: Blog

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• Healing From Suicide Grief

  • Resource: Blog

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• Coping with Grief After a Suicide Death

  • Resource: 44 page PDF

  • Summary: This booklet is designed as a simple response to distress signals that you are likely to direct to family members, friends, your social support network, and others. Some people who care about you may have enough compassion, knowledge and sensitivity to meet your needs; others may ‘mean well’, and succeed in saying and doing all the wrong things.

• The Journey Through Grief: The Mourner's Six "Reconciliation Needs"

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

  • Summary: There are six "yield signs" you are likely to encounter on your journey through grief-what I call the "reconciliation needs of mourning." For while your grief journey will be an intensely personal, unique experience, all mourners must yield to this set of basic human needs if they are to heal.

• Are You a Grief Victim or a Grief Survivor?

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: A short series of questions to help you become a survivor and not be a victim.

Dealing with Suicide and Grief in the Workplace

• Grief At The Office: How To Deal With The Worst When You Still Have To Work

  • Resource: Article

• Returning to Work After a Suicide Loss

  • Resource: http://www.supportaftersuicide.org.au/what-to-do/returning-to-work

• Breaking the Silence in the Workplace

  • Resource: 48 page PDF

  • Summary: A Guide for Employers on Responding to Suicide in the Workplace

• A Manager's Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace

  • Resource: 19 page PDF

  • Summary: 10 Action steps for dealing with the aftermath of a suicide

• Coping After a Suicide Loss at Work

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

  • Summary: Answers for those who have lost a friend or colleague to suicide

Grief Support for Specific Relationships

• Widowed by Suicide

  • Resource: Website

• When a Brother or Sister Dies

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: The Compassionate Friends

• Surviving Your Child's Suicide

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: The Compassionate Friends

• Child Suicide

  • Resource: Website

• When Your Child Dies by Suicide

  • Resource: Blog post

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• Sibling Survivors of Suicide

  • Resource: Website

• Family Reorganization After a Loss

  • Resource: Blog Article

  • Summary: Whenever a family member dies, there is a process that a healthy family undergoes in response to the loss of one of its own. This process is called “role reorganization.” It occurs because the family needs to get itself back into the rhythm and balance that was lost when the family member died. Many times families are not even consciously aware of what they are doing, but it is a critically important process nonetheless.

• Recommendations for Family Interventions Following a Suicide

  • Resource: 9 page PDF

• Postvention for African American Families Following a Loved Ones Suicide

  • Resource: 7 page PDF

Complicated Grief and PTSD

• Finding Help for Complicated Grief

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: However, some people find that their grief does not change with time. These people are bothered by something that happened around the death or about how things have been after the death. These people are “stuck” in the grieving process and suffering from the condition called Complicated Grief (CG). No matter how long it has been, they still feel that all they want is to be with their loved one again.

• How to Recognize Complicated Grief

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: Complicated grief often disrupts relationships with friends and family and makes the bereaved person feel cut off and alone. Complicated grief can make it difficult to function effectively or even to care about functioning. Maybe you know someone who has lost a child, a spouse, a partner, a parent, or a close friend - and you are wondering if they are suffering from complicated grief.

• The Center for Complicated Grief

  • Resource: Treatment Program

  • Summary: This is a world renowned treatment program at Columbia University in Manhattan led by award winning physician Dr. Katherine Shear. This program focuses on the novel treatment methods to help those struggling with Complicated Grief.

• NY Times Article on Complicated Grief

  • Resource: Article

• Experiencing Trauma

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: Grief is not the only experience that people bereaved by suicide face. Many people also suffer the impact of trauma. Some people will have found the person who died and will usually be affected by trauma. But those who have not found the person may also be traumatised by the impact of the death.

• Coping with a Traumatic Event

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

  • Summary: Brochure from the CDC. Most everyone has been through a stressful event in his or her life. When the event, or series of events, causes a lot of stress, it is called a traumatic event. Traumatic events are marked by a sense of horror, helplessness, serious injury, or the threat of serious injury or death. Traumatic events affect survivors, rescue workers, and the friends and relatives of victims who have been involved

• Traumatic Grief and Post Traumatic Stress

  • Resource: Website

• Common Symptoms In Mourners Needing Professional Help

  • Resource: Blog Posting

• Navigating PTSD After a Suicide

  • Resource: Blog Post

• NAMI Brochure on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Resource: 17 page PDF

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• How Do People Respond During Traumatic Exposure?

  • Resource: 10 page pdf

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• MyPTSD

  • Resource: Website and Chat Forum

  • Summary: PTSD Forum launched on the 06th Sep, 2005, with one simple aim, to provide quality PTSD information and support to all concerned.

Helping Children and Teens

• Suicide Loss: What Teens Need to Know

  • Resource: 21 page PDF

  • Summary: Self-help for Young People who have Lost a Family Member or Friend to Suicide

• Preparing Your Child For Attending the Funeral of a Friend

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: Tips and guidelines for helping your child participate at a funeral

• Preparing a Child to Attend a Memorial Service

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

  • Summary: The decision to allow a young child to attend another child’s funeral or wake is sensitive. Use your discretion. There is no right or wrong. Your personal decision is okay.

• Parent Guidelines For Crisis Response

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

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• Explaining Suicide to Children

  • Resource: Webpage

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• What to Tell Children of a Loved One’s Suicide?

  • Resource: Blog Post

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• Sesame Street: When Families Grieve

  • Resource: Webpage

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• When a Child's Friend Dies by Suicide

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

  • Summary: When your child’s life is touched by the suicide of a peer or a friend, you may find yourself experiencing a lot of different things about the same time. Initially,you will most likely be stunned by the death.

• Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book

  • Resource: 94 page PDF

  • Summary: For children and teens. The PDF files for the Companioning the Grieving Child Curriculum Book activity handouts and worksheets - See more at: http://www.centerforloss.com

• Teen Grief

  • Resource: 48 page Workbook

  • Resource: 8 minute video Part 1

  • Resource: 8 minute Video Part 2

  • Resource: 8 minute Video Part 3

  • Summary: This booklet and accompanying videos have been developed to help you understand your grief and to let you know that you are not alone. Many teens are sharing the same journey, and help is available right now.

• Coping with Suicide Loss, Telling Children

  • Resource: 5 page PDF

  • Summary: For many adults, suicide can be very upsetting and frightening. If you find yourself having to explain suicide to a child, you may be wondering about the best way to do it. You can even be so overwhelmed that you feel tempted to “protect” the child by saying that the death was caused by a heart attack or an accident, rather than by suicide. To help, here are some practical guidelines.

• Suggestions for Helping Children

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: Children have the same emotional needs after the suicide of a loved one as adults, but often their hurts are not taken seriously. Many times adults have their hands full of grief and do not think to reach out to the children. Here are some ideas.

• When a parent dies by suicide… What kids want to know

  • Resource: 6 page PDF

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• Children's Grief Education Association

  • Resource: Website

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• National Alliance for Grieving Children

  • Resource: Website

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• Private vs. Secret: Coaching Children on What to Share

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: Helping children to understand how and when to talk about suicide with others.

• Talking to Children About Suicide

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

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• Coping With Suicide Loss…Talking with Children

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

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• When A Parent Dies by Suicide…What Kids Want to Know

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

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• New York Life Foundation: A Child In Grief

  • Resource: Website

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• Helping Children Cope With Loss, Death, and Grief Tips for Teachers and Parents

  • Resource: 4 page PDF

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• Coping with Crisis—Helping Children With Special Needs

  • Resource: Website

  • Author: National Association of School Psychologists

  • Summary: When a crisis event occurs—in school, in the community or at the national level—it can cause strong and deeply felt reactions in adults and children, especially those children with special needs. Many of the available crisis response resources are appropriate for use with students with disabilities, provided that individual consideration is given to the child’s developmental and emotional maturity. Acts of healing such as making drawings, writing letters, attending memorial ceremonies and sending money to relief charities are important for all children.

• Understanding Grief and Age Appropriate Reactions to Traumatic Events

  • Resource: 13 page PDF

  • Author: Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center

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• Sibling Death and Childhood Traumatic Grief: Introduction to Childhood Grief Information for Families

  • Resource: 16 page PDF

  • Summary: Like adults, children and teens may feel intense sadness and loss, or grief, when a person close to them dies. And like adults, children and teens express their grief in how they behave, what they think and say, and how they feel emotionally and physically. Each child grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way or length of time to grieve.

Dealing with Anniversaries, Holidays and Moving On

• After the First Year, . . . Then What?

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

  • Summary: Discusses 28 steps for dealing with grief of a suicide loss after the first year.

• The Anniversary Dilemma

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

  • Summary: A discussion of how people deal with the anniversary of the suicide death of their loved one.

• The Second Year of Grief is Harder Than the First

  • Resource: Blog Post

  • Summary: A discussion about the author's experience after the first year and how grieving for a loved one's suicide changes over time.

• Holiday Bill of Rights for Those Experiencing Grief

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: An 18 point summary of ideas and feelings that you are entitled to feel during a holiday after a suicide impacts you.

• Coping With The Holidays

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: A short list of tips for dealing with holidays after a loss.

• Holiday Grief #1: Holidays? Yeah, Right!

  • Resource: Blog Post

  • Summary: We can either use the Holidays to help us grieve well, or the Holidays will use us.

• Handling Holiday Grief #2: Why Holidays are Hard and What You Can Do About It

  • Resource: Blog post and 3 min video

  • Summary: YOU get to choose…What you want to do, How you want to do it, And with whom.

• Handling Holiday Grief #3: How to Do the Holidays WITH Your Loved One

  • Resource: Blog post and 4 min video

  • Summary: Here’s one option: meet the holidays head on. Instead of letting the holidays use you, use them to honor your loved one and love those around you.

• Handling Holiday Grief #4: A Holiday Healing Secret that Can Make a Huge Difference

  • Resource: Blog post and 4 min video

  • Summary: Use your grief to give thanks. Your read that right. Use your grief. With just a little effort, you can turn it into thanksgiving. And gratitude does wonders in healing a broken heart.

• Holiday Grief Support Resources

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: A big list of generalized articles on dealing with grief during the holidays. Not suicide specific.

• Angelversary

  • Resource: Facebook Post

  • Summary: The celebration of my loved ones life, who died by suicide, on the yearly anniversary of their death. The day my loved one became an angel.

• Kay Warren's On Moving On

  • Resource: Facebook Post

  • Summary: The wife of Saddleback Church's famous Pastor Rick Warren talks about her journey of healing after her son's suicide.

Religion and Suicide

• Religious and Cultural Views of Suicide

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: Religious and cultural views of suicide can have a profound effect on the suicide bereaved. Read here what various religious and cultural groups believe about suicide and how that has continued to change over the years

• Coping with a Suicide Catholic Teaching and Pastoral Response

  • Resource: 29 page PDF

  • Summary: Although not a comprehensive source on suicide, this booklet attempts to help survivors, and those who are concerned about them, with some of the questions and doubts that commonly arise in the attempt to come to terms with bereavement by suicide.

• Suicide By Rabbi Kassel Abelson

  • Resource: 11 page PDF

  • Summary: An enlightened Rabbinical discussion of Suicide and the Jewish faith. " Suicide, “taking one’s own life”, is forbidden by Jewish law, for only God who has given life may take it. Though the early Halakhah denied the suicide the usual burial and mourning rites, the trend of Halakhic development was to find a reason to treat the ritual for a suicide like the ritual for any other death. For the sake of the survivors the mourning ritual involving the family may be performed. The “suicide” of a katan (child) is always considered evidence of less mental capacity, and full rites are permitted. A history of mental illness is prima facie evidence, that the taking of one’s life was due to diminished mental capacity. In fact any reason is deemed sufficient to decide that a suicide is without full and complete mental capacity, or the result of temporary insanity. A suicide is to be treated like any other death, with the right of burial in the cemetery, and the same ritual of mourning.

• The Healing Power of Saying Kaddish for a Suicide

  • Resource: 11 page PDF

  • Summary: This article will provide an overview of Jewish law on mourning a suicide while exploring in more depth the issues involved with saying Kaddish for someone who has taken his or her own life.

• A Faith Based Perspective on Suicide

  • Resource: Website

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Traumatic Brain Injuries and Suicide

• Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: Summary of the risk of suicide following traumatic brain injury

• Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide

  • Resource: 33 page PDF

  • Summary: Information and resources for clinicians

• Suicide Attempts Following Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Resource: 40 page PDF

  • Summary: Training presentation From Risk Identification to Prevention traumaticbraininjury.net

Dealing With The Authorities After A Suicide Death

• NJ DOCJ Homicide and Sudden Death Survivor Guidelines

  • Resource: 15 page PDF

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• A Guide to the New Jersey Medical Examiner System

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

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• Request For A Copy of An Autopsy Report

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

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• NJ Office of The State Medical Examiner FAQs

  • Resource: Website

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• Toxicology Testing and Results for Suicide Victims

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Resource: 5 min Podcast

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• Directory of state, county and municipal Law Enforcement phone numbers and addresses

  • Resource: 50 page PDF

  • Summary: Contact information for every law enforcement agency in NJ

• County / Regional Medical Examiner Directory

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: Contact information for medical examiners in NJ

Suicide Facts and Statistics

• Suicide Facts Sheet by the Center for Disease Control

  • Resource: 2 page PDF

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• New Jersey Suicide Statistics and Facts

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: A detailed analysis of suicide in NJ

• At a Glance - Suicide Among the Elderly

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

  • Summary: A summary of suicide among older persons

Newsletters From Other Support Groups and Sites

• Survivors Of Suicide Loss California

  • Resource: Newsletters

• Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide Chicago

  • Resource: Newsletters

• Friends for Survival California

  • Resource: Newsletters

• Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)

  • Resource: Newsletters

• Hope For Beareaved

  • Resource: Newsletters

All Other Links

• Hope and Healing: A Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide

  • Resource: 44 page PDF

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• Hope and Healing After Suicide

  • Resource: 84 page PDF

  • Summary: We hope this guide has reached you at a time when it can be most helpful. This is a practical guide to help you through... the first few moments then the first few hours then the first few days then the first few years …after the suicide of someone close to you.

• Self - Care For The Bereaved By Suicide: Reflections from a Grief Counselor

  • Resource: 29 page Training PDF

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• After a Suicide: A Practical and Personal Guide for Survivors

  • Resource: 40 page PDF

  • Summary: This handbook was written to help you through the death by suicide of your loved one. It contains both practical and personal information, as well as a list of books, websites and support groups, that we hope will help you through your grief. Different parts of this resource may be of help to you at different times. Immediately after a death by suicide, there are many practical matters that families will need to attend to and questions they might have about what to do. This resource starts with addressing these practical matters.

• After a Suicide Resource Directory

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: "After a Suicide" is a portal linking people who are grieving after a death by suicide to an online directory of resources and information to help them cope with their loss.

• Suicide Loss Frequently Asked Questions

  • Resource: Webpage

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• Recovering from Suicide Loss: A Self Help Handbook

  • Resource: 18 page Word Document

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• What Makes a Death By Suicide So Different?

  • Resource: 1 page PDF

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• Survivor Resources

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

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• Coping after a Suicide

  • Resource: 9 page PDF

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• Speaking of Suicide

  • Resource: Blog

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• Mary's Shortcut: About Suicide Bereavement

  • Resource: Blog

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• Suicide Finding Hope

  • Resource: Website

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• The 3 i's The ignorant, the insensitive and the idiot

  • Resource: Webpage

• Life After Suicide

  • Resource: Article

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• Finding Hope After Loss

  • Resource: Website

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• Suicide Finding Hope

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: Information about suicide, mental illness, or coping with suicide loss.

• After A Suicide Resource Directory

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: "After a Suicide" is a portal linking people who are grieving after a death by suicide to an online directory of resources and information to help them cope with their loss.

• Support After Suicide

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: Australian site with good practical information for survivors.

• Our Side of Suicide

  • Resource: Website

  • Summary: Suicide is a topic that is often avoided or kept quiet in our society and can carry with it an unfortunate stigma for survivors. As we’ve experienced, suicide is something that can strike any family and is not singular to any one type of person, culture or economic status. Our mission is to help elevate the discussion and availability of support for those who need it so that no one has to feel silenced in their grief.

• Homicide/Suicide

  • Resource: 3 page PDF

  • Summary: Though a relatively rare occurrence, situations involving a homicide followed by the suicide of the perpetrator grab headlines and draw a great deal of attention. More importantly, they have a devastating impact on the families, and communities who are touched by these tragedies.

• American Roulette: Murder Suicide in The United States

  • • Resource: 17 page PDF

    • Summary: Murder-suicide is “a dramatic, violent event” in which a person, almost always a man, commits one murder or multiple murders, and then shortly after commits suicide. What makes these acts particularly disturbing is that they involve more than one person and often involve a family. They almost always are committed with a firearm.

• It Just Happened

  • Resource: Webpage

  • Summary: If you've recently learned that someone you care about has taken their own life you are probably feeling shocked and wondering how this could have happened. It's important for you to know that there are people who understand what you are going through right now and that you do not need to go through this on your own. This page has information about where to go for practical, immediate help and also offers some things to consider in the weeks and months ahead.

• New Jersey Self-Help Group Clearinghouse

  • Resource: Website

  • Resource: 1-800-367-6274

  • Summary: There are many hundreds of additional local community, online & National Support Groups available to those in need. They include a broad range of other stressful life situations that include most illnesses, bereavement situations, disabilities, divorce, parenting problems, family issues, other trauma experiences, job clubs, and many other life transitions and adversities.

• Suicide Contagion & Suicide Clusters

  • Resource: 5 page PDF

  • Summary: It has long been believed that when suicidal contagion occurs, a suicide cluster can develop. A cluster, in this case, is defined as multiple suicidal behaviours or suicides that fall within an accelerated time frame, and sometimes within a defined geographical area. Studies have shown that adolescents are the ones most affected

• Here's a Quick and Simple Way To Receive Signs From Your Loved One...

  • Resource: Blog Post

  • Summary: Are you one of the many grieving people who want to receive signs from your deceased loved ones? If you are reading this, most likely you are. And, most bereaved people I speak with do...

• Your Life After Their Death: A Medium's Guide to Healing After a Loss

  • Resource: Website and Audio

  • Summary: In Your Life After Their Death, psychic medium Karen Noé shows you how to move on and enjoy life again after you’ve lost a loved one. As she often states, “Your deceased loved ones are okay and want you to be okay, too!”

• Relaxing 3 Hour Video of Tropical Beach with Blue Sky White Sand and Palm Tree

  • Resource: 3 hour Video

• Free Guided Meditations

  • Resource: 8 Audio Files

  • Summary: For an introduction to mindfulness meditation that you can practice on your own, turn on your speakers and click on the "Play" button.