Welcome to this supportive non-profit site, established on 29 April 2003, for those who have suffered the tragic and indescribably painful loss of a child to suicide.
This site is also here to support young people who feel depressed or isolated in their problems and those who self-harm. You are not alone. Somebody cares very much.
The suicide of a loved one throws bereaved families into a wilderness of silent, relentless torture. There is so much stigma and lack of understanding surrounding mental illness and suicide that in addition to their intense grief, families have to handle the prejudice and unqualified opinions of others who cannot even begin to comprehend what it is like to feel such despair. Far from being the act of cowardice, it takes a lot of courage to sacrifice your own life and some depression sufferers do so because they feel that they will be relieving their families of an emotional burden. Before someone thinks about making a harsh judgement against someone who has ended their life, they should consider the poor schoolchild who has been bullied to the extent that he or she simply cannot take it anymore and sees suicide as the only solution.
My heart goes out to all of you who have lost a child, grandchild, brother or sister to suicide and I hope that you will find some comfort within these pages.
Please feel free to recommend any sites or resources that you feel will be helpful to surviving families or depressed youngsters.
22 March 1982 - 1 November 2002
Buried on 22 November 2002
Loved and missed so much by all his family and friends - Mum Jan, Sisters Anneliese and Lauren, brother Carsten, girlfriend Millie, daughter Kayla, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins
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He had a heart of gold
"You can never do a kindness too soon,
because you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
Helen Keller
"It was so important to him to feel loved, as it is with most of us, but feeling needed was something that was fundamental to Kristian’s well-being, something that became painfully obvious after 1 November 2002."
Excerpt from Chasing Death - Losing a Child to Suicide by Jan Andersen,
Mother of Kristian Mikhail Andersen
