With the master’s thesis, we explored how parents experienced the experience of a child’s death. We were interested in what the circumstances of the death were and what support and help they had at the time of death and immediately after death. We specifically focused on experiencing the changes that occurred due to the experience of a child’s death. At each topic, we stopped and highlighted some key aspects of the experience we were researching.
We have confirmed some theoretical starting points that speak of a lifelong process of mourning, which otherwise takes place in characteristic stages, but the emotions associated with the loss of a child always remain close to the surface. Participants experienced the death of a child more than three years ago from the time of the study. Those whose first and only child died had a second child after some time and experienced a new birth as a turning point in mourning.
We determined the extent of the child’s death event, which is an agent of change in the family system and who questions some self-evident life facts, such as life expectancy, parenthood and relationships that do not die in that order. It is an event of death that transcends the natural course and can therefore only be processed and accepted at this excessive level.
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