Before Their Time: Adult Children's Experiences of Parental Suicide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566396557 ISBN 13: 9781566396554

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Before Their Time presents adult children survivors' (defined as 18 or above at the time of the parent's death) accounts of their loss, grief and resolution following a parent's suicide. In one section, the book offers the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of mothers; in another, the perspectives of sons and daughters on the deaths of fathers. In a third section, four siblings reflect on the shared loss of their mother.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A collection of first-person accounts by daughters and sons affected by parental suicide, Before Their Time is the first work to present adult children survivors' accounts of their loss, grief, and resolution. Examining the common difficulties associated with losing a loved one by suicide, this book looks at the difficulties specific to the survivor's status as both adult and child.

From having experienced the tragedy of parental suicide within the past few years to having dealt with it for nearly twenty-five years, the contributors to this volume range in age from nineteen to thirty-six. Their essays speak openly about fears, stresses, and methods of coping. Topics explored include coping with such loss through humor and the effects of parental suicide on adult children's personal and professional choices, marriages and parenting, and sibling and surviving parent relationships.

With a foreword by the Founder and Director of Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide, Rev. Charles Rubey, Before Their Time also includes a resource section that offers a national listing of suicide survivor support groups; an overview of existing research on survivors of suicide by John L. McIntosh, former President of the American Association of Suicidology; and an essay on elderly suicide by Secretary-General of International Association for Suicide and Crisis Editor-in-Chief David C. Clark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566396557
• ISBN 13: 9781566396554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227
• Editor: Mary Stimming, Maureen Stimming