Grieving Dads: When a Child Dies Suddenly

This is an excerpt from Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back, which is available at Amazon. If it were up to me, I probably would change the “five stages of grief” thing so it included a brand new category. I’d call it “Shock and Trauma,” because those are really the things that hit you first after the death of a child. “Shock,” minus the awe. And “trauma,” minus the blood. Leastwise, trauma minus your own blood. The experts call the first stage of grieving “denial,” and I can promise you that you will indeed experience denial when you go […]