In my master's thesis, I researched how mourning happens after the suicide of a family member. In the theoretical part, I focused on understanding of suicide and suicide among older people. I defined the grieving process, the course of grieving and it's stages. I covered the topic related to emotions and various risks in the grieving process and defined the role of social work in the grieving process in more detail. Since we were marked by the covid-19 epidemic in the last two years, I wrote in the theoretical part what suicide is like after the epidemic. In the research work, I asked myself research questions, which I tried to answer during the writing of my master's thesis. In my research, I included people who lost a family member due to suicide. I was mainly interested in what happened before the suicide, how they faced the suicide, the process and course of grieving, who stood by them during the grieving process, whether they sought professional help and how they live in the present and what feelings they are dealing with today when they remember the suicide. Suicide changed their lives. Each of the interlocutors coped differently with the feelings upon learning of the suicide. During the grieving process, the interviewees were accompanied by various emotions that they faced and they helped themselves in various ways. Today, however, the interlocutors live a more calm life and without major sadness, only one of the interlocutors did not mourn the death and dealt with his emotions. It would be necessary to develop several forms of assistance for the bereaved who are dealing with the suicide of a loved one. The field of social work should develop even more in the area of suicide and develop more new forms of help for the bereaved.
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