By The New York Times — 2019
Readers, some of them speaking from experience, discuss how family members are often blamed or feel they could have prevented it.
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CLEAR ALL
Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.
Part of being human means that we do experience the natural ebb and flow of life. This brings sadness and joy, despair and happiness, pain and beauty, loss and love. These aspects of the human experience are normal.
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