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Coping with bereavement

If someone you know has been bereaved, it can be very difficult to know what to say or do to help them. Here are a few suggestions of things that might help and what might not help.
I had a friend in the States and we were talking after her son died. She lived just behind us and he killed himself. I said to her, “I know how you feel.” And she said to me, “Joyce, you don’t know.” And then after my son died I went back to her and apologised, because you don’t know until you have gone through it. It is sad. It’s hard.