the unimaginable loss
Losing a child is painful beyond words. In this space, we share our grief and honor the love we have for our children.
Can We Survive Losing Our Child?
Many times, parents those facing the death of their child will wonder, “How can we go on?” The pain looks insurmountable. The anticipation of death
Reliving the Anticipation of My Daughter’s Death
In the opening scene from the Netflix film The Deepest Breath you hear a woman’s heartbeat as she free dives over three-hundred feet to the bottom of
The Charles River Will Always Be About Losing My Daughter
I know the route from Boston Children’s Hospital to the Le Méridien hotel in Cambridge by heart. It’s as if a birds-eye view map has
Balancing Suffering and Happiness After Our Daughter Died
A little over a year ago, I woke up and my daughter June was gone. She died from neuroblastoma when she was one-and-a-half years old after ten
The Definition of Pediatric Cancer is Killing Our Children
Defining it as “rare” disadvantages the pediatric cancer community The majority of pediatric cancer research and discussion revolves around finding a cure and developing
Ik vind jou lief (I love you, in Dutch)
6th of January 2025 (Three Kings is a day celebrated in Spain where there’s a big children’s feast) Dear Kaleb , When I look at
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Death of a Child
Written by Courtney Mount, mother to Millie
Many times, parents facing the death of their child will wonder, “How can we go on?” The pain looks insurmountable. The anticipation of death weighs heavily as they try to make memories in the short time they have remaining. I can clearly remember the task of planning Millie’s funeral while I held her in my arms—my LIVING child. She was talking to me, doing what children do, and I was picking out a coffin, deciding on songs, and trying to think clearly, knowing all too soon we would lay her in that very coffin and say goodbye.
The task of living while watching someone die is so hard. We spent each moment allowing Millie to do whatever she felt up to doing. Sometimes that was riding on the four-wheeler, playing in the dirt, visiting our horses-while dragging her IV pole behind her. At other times, it was watching more movies than any three-year-old needs, while
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