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their parents by avoiding the subject of death and the missing family member. Linda found a picture of Richard hidden in her daughter’s drawer and suggested they frame it and hang it up.
Linda and Sam have started a library for members of their group. In it they have a selection of material they feel will help members and families of members to understand grief.
And they have begun to find small pleasures in life. “In some ways I have happier moments than before,” Sam said. “I will treasure little things, appreciate them with a greater intensity. My priorities are different.”
This re-shuffling of priorities is common to these who have experienced the ultimate tragedy.
“Now, if there’s a choice between doing housework and say, playing cards with my daughter, it’s not much of a choice to me,” Linda said.
Petty worries, small aggravations increasing one’s social or financial position: all lose their hold over souls that have been through the fire. This is another bond between Compassionate Friends. Members from other groups within the organization are quoted as saying that they believe they are better people, better parents because of thier loss. But they add, “what a terrible cost.”
The first Compassionate Friends group was founded in Coventry, England by Rev. Simon Stephens in 1969. Stevens served as an assistant chaplain in a hospital where many children died. Two couples became
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