BC Bereavement Helpline

Reading Materials

Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death, by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal, (brochure) - available through the BC Bereavement Helpline. Please click here.

Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart, by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.

The Wilderness of Suicide Grief: Finding Your Way, by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison

[In Spanish Only] Superando El Duelo Despues De Un Suicidio - Las Experiencias de los que se Quedan, by Jessica Wolf Ortiz

Books for grieving a suicide - this website has more suggestions. 

Most of the links from the book titles above will lead you to Amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book, read reviews about it, and order it if you'd like.

Video: Supporting those Bereaved by Suicide (Lifeline Australia)

Grieving A Loss to Suicide: This webiste helps navigate different ways of grieving and highlights common symptoms of suicide bereavement.

Online Resources 

After a Suicide Toolkit for Schools

Hope, Help and Healing - First Nations Health Authority

Hope and Healing: Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide

Suicide Grief & Coping with Loss (Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention)

Healing Your Spirit Surviving After the Suicide of a Loved One

Please click here to learn more about the BC Bereavement Helpline's Suicide Grief Support Group.