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Practical help

You can get practical help from a funeral director, the family doctor, a solicitor, welfare officers and personnel departments at workplaces, your minister of religion, a social services department and Citizens Advice. A health visitor or district nurse who attended the deceased may be also able to help. If death was in a hospital, ask the sister or hospital chaplain.

Support and comfort from specialist organisations

You may feel that you want to talk with someone sympathetic who is outside your immediate family or with people who have been through a similar experience. In addition to ministers of religion and hospital chaplains there are organisations in England and Wales which give this kind of support.

Check the website of the organisation below that you think might help you; or look in the phone book or ask at a library for a local branch.

• Age Concern Opens new window
• Cruse Bereavement Care Opens new window
• Foundation for the study of infant deaths Opens new window
• The Miscarriage Association website Opens new window
• The Samaritans Opens new window
• SSAFA Forces Help Opens new window
• Support After Murder and Manslaughter (SAMM) Opens new window
• The Terrence Higgins Trust (AIDS or HIV) Opens new window
• The War Widows Assocation of Great Britain Opens new window
• Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide Opens new window
• Child Bereavement Charity Opens new window