Grief Support

This section has been developed to help you understand the relationship between death, funerals and the strong emotional feelings of grief that most people experience surrounding the death of a loved one or friend. If you have experienced a loss, this is in no way intended to serve as counselor or sole source of information when working through your particular experience. Simply, it serves as an opportunity to learn a basic understanding of grief and how funerals play a vital role in the mental health and recovery of the bereaved.

The only people capable of understanding grief
are those who walk in grief's heavy shoes.
The only people capable of surviving grief
are those who allow themselves to
share their grief with others.

-- Rodney C. Wakeman
Funeral Director
Certified Funeral Service Practitioner
National Certified Bereavement Facilitator

The author of this site would like to acknowledge and express his deep appreciation to the American Academy of Bereavement, Buffalo, New York, for the materials necessary to develop much of the information contained herein.