Dear Eric: My cat died in 2013. Everyone said I treated him like a child. He got so sick, so suddenly, it freaked me out so badly. Then my dad died out of nowhere in 2018. I wanted to die to be with ...

Source: An excellent book to help children understand death and dying. Many young children are faced with the reality of losing a loved one to an illness or old age, and helping kids cope with an ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." How to talk about death and dying ...

One of the saddest questions I get from parents is how to how to help a child cope with the death of a pet. It is important to understand that how a child deals with a pet’s death depends largely on ...

Young children can have big feelings after the death of their parent, but might not be able to verbalize what's going on, on the inside. As they grow and mature, the words usually come, but in the ...