‘One of the hardest things when you go through nearly losing a child, and having an altered child return to you, is the loneliness.’Photograph: Alamy Archie Bland’s article about his son and his ...

Just to reassure you, you’re not letting go of your child. You’re letting go of the pain and suffering and fully accepting ...

Grief is a solitary journey, but for parents who lose a child to overdose, it is a journey of heartbreak too often stigmatized by society’s assumptions and blame. Parents who endure this loss are left ...

On a quiet evening in Nairobi, a wave of sorrow swept through Dagoretti North as news spread that MP Beatrice Elachi had lost her beloved son. Elvis Murakana Namenya succumbed to injuries sustained in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —Losing a child is one of the hardest things a parent could ever go through, and for many people who have gone through that, it can be hard to share their story. However, one ...

I've always heard that photography could be therapeutic, and after losing both of my parents within 364 days of one another, I knew this to be true. I remembered this healing power when I was 13 ...

I have often said that working with patients who are dying has brought an ironic, but transient, feeling of exhilaration to my life. Most care providers who work in hospice will explain to us that ...

On March 16, I shared a letter from “Mother of Three,” who lost her daughter five years ago and felt unsure about how to respond when people ask, “how many children do you have?” A number of readers ...

On a quiet evening in Nairobi, a wave of sorrow swept through Dagoretti North as news spread that MP Beatrice Elachi had lost her beloved son. Elvis Murakana Namenya succumbed to injuries sustained in ...

Katie Van Tornhout, an Indiana woman who lost her 37-day-old daughter to whooping cough, recalls the heartbreak of losing a child to the preventable illness. “We paid the ultimate price,” Van Tornhout ...