Share your story of sibling loss

Would you like to be a guest author on this blog?  If you have lost a sibling, you are qualified!  Just email jessicajdagel@gmail.com with your story. 

Introduction by Amanda Held Opelt

 

“He was my North, my South, my East, and West…”

From W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”

Growing up, I spent plenty of sleepless nights worried something bad would happen to my parents.  Even as I entered adulthood, I understood that there would come a day when I’d be arranging for my parents medical care in their old age and eventually planning their funerals.  It’s what children expect to do for their parents.

 Sibling Grief Links 

A place for website, books, programs, etc. that you have personally found helpful in dealing with your grief.  If you'd like to add things that have been helpful to this list, please email your suggestion to jessicajdagel@gmail.com.

Sibling Grief: why we need to share our stories

 

When my younger sister was diagnosed with a rare bone sarcoma in 1997, I optimistically thought she'd be treated and everything would get back to "normal." Two years later our lives were anything but back to normal.