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help for the bereaved

Apart from general advice and support from, for example, doctors, solicitors and social services, there are many organisations that can offer help according to your particular circumstances.

Practical help

You can get practical help from a funeral director, the family doctor, a solicitor, welfare officers and personnel departments at workplaces, your minister of religion, a social services department and Citizens Advice. A health visitor or district nurse who attended the deceased may be also able to help. If death was in a hospital, ask the sister or hospital chaplain.

Support and comfort from specialist organisations

You may feel that you want to talk with someone sympathetic who is outside your immediate family or with people who have been through a similar experience. In addition to ministers of religion and hospital chaplains there are organisations in England and Wales which give this kind of support.

Check the website of the organisation below that you think might help you; or look in the phone book or ask at a library for a local branch.

• Age Concern
• Cruse Bereavement Care
• Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
• The Miscarriage Association
• The Samaritans
• SSAFA Forces Help
• The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society
• The Terrence Higgins Trust
• The War Widows Association of Great Britain
• The WAY Foundation

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