It is almost 11 years since my son took his life. I had no idea about this in July.
SUDC
An unofficial Lemmy community for Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC).
For more information, see the SUDC Foundation website.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Feel free to talk as much or as little about your son here as you'd like. Finding community where I can share grief has helped me, hopefully finding out about this will help you too.
Here's a poem that comforted me. Maybe you'll get something out of it:
My little man,
down what centuries of light did you travel to reach us here,
your stay so short-lived;
In the twinkling of an eye you were moving on,
bearing our name and a splinter of the human cross we suffer;
flashed upon us like a beacon,
we wait in darkness for that light to come round,
knowing at heart you shine forever for us
- Hugh O’Donnell