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authenticitystudio.bsky.social
Dr Chris Bowden lost two close friends to suicide in high school. What began in silence and anger became a lifelong journey of research, creativity, and advocacy for men bereaved by suicide.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGc...
February 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
dignityindying.org.uk
Drawing on a decade of supporting people bereaved by suicide, Baroness Gerada challenges the use of the phrase “assisted suicide” and sets out the clear difference with assisted dying.

Assisted dying applies to those who are already dying and want choice at the end of life.
February 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
jordanlegacyuk.bsky.social
A new resource has been developed to support young people bereaved by suicide.
Download today at lnkd.in/esX-w95U and please share with your networks 🩵
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
#mentalhealth #suicideprevention #bereavement
February 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
banburyfm.com
A new peer-led support group for adults bereaved by suicide is launching in Banbury this week.
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New support group for adults bereaved by suicide - Banbury FM
A new peer-led support group for adults bereaved by suicide is launching in Banbury this week.
banburyfm.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:31 PM
sharonmcdonnell.bsky.social
Busy week at Suicide Bereavement UK delivering evidence-based, face2face suicide bereavement training nationwide; from universities, health professionals to the fire service. Building confidence to support those bereaved by suicide.
Learn more + 300 testimonials: suicidebereavementuk.com
#PABBS #RTS
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 AM
luckyerica3.bsky.social
then can't we just do that and take a whole hearted inventory of the failures that impact young people? In my limited experience talking to suicidal adults and bereaved parents of young people who died by suicide, being frank and being heard about the failures is
January 23, 2026 at 10:21 AM
jordanlegacyuk.bsky.social
✨ Specialist support groups for those in the police community bereaved by suicide ✨
polfed.org/northyorks/n...
#mentalhealth #police #suicideprevention #bereavement
January 22, 2026 at 10:38 AM
ie-news.bsky.social
NI woman bereaved by suicide calls for greater funding to prevent deaths

https://www.europesays.com/ie/297024/

Sophia McBrideBBC News NI BBC “I’m just this wee girl who wants to make a difference, who wants…
NI woman bereaved by suicide calls for greater funding to prevent deaths - Ireland
Sophia McBrideBBC News NI
www.europesays.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 AM
ashleynova.space
The problem I have with so much attention being given to the bereaved parents of kids who completed suicide on the issue of a social media ban, is that no attention is ever given to why these kids might be turning to more extreme content on social media in the first place.
January 21, 2026 at 1:44 PM
todayheadline.bsky.social
Molly Russell’s dad says under-16 social media ban would be wrong

Bereaved families ‘horrified’ over politicians entering social media ban debate, says Russell The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online has said banning under-16s from social…
Molly Russell’s dad says under-16 social media ban would be wrong
Bereaved families ‘horrified’ over politicians entering social media ban debate, says Russell The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online has said banning under-16s from social media would be wrong. Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, told BBC's Newscast that the government should enforce existing laws rather than "implementing sledgehammer techniques like bans".
todayheadline.co
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 AM
gamblingwithlives.bsky.social
We're grateful to @kevinmckenna.co.uk MP for organising yesterday’s debate and for his continued support for families bereaved by gambling-related suicide, including his constituent Lesley.
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM
authenticitystudio.bsky.social
30 years later, nothing had changed.
Young men bereaved by suicide are still left unsupported — and at risk themselves.
When we truly listen, they speak.
It’s time to change how we support men in grief. Watch the full podcast on youtu.be/fkGc6EM1tis
January 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
markshanahan.bsky.social
My alter-ego as a comms person for www.thelearnnetwork.org.uk - a community of families bereaved by suicide.
January 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
psyarxivbot.bsky.social
The Bereaved Voices Project: A protocol for community-based psychological autopsy research to understand and prevent suicide in autistic people: https://osf.io/mfsd6
January 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
jordanlegacyuk.bsky.social
The charity Speak Their Name have recently launched a campaign calling on the coroner's office to improve the inquest ordeal for people bereaved by suicide.
They would like short videos of people's experiences of the coronial process, particularly men. Please email anna@speaktheirname.org
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
m-f-c.bsky.social
Suicide bereavement is often accompanied by profound uncertainty, self-blame, and silence — yet these experiences are rarely spoken about openly.
Making Sense After a Suicide is a new resource developed to support people bereaved by suicide.
🔗 www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/2026/01/12/n...
Making Sense after Suicide:living with blame, uncertainty, and the need for answers. You are not alone
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
luckyerica3.bsky.social
If you are involved in funding/commissioning/designing support that will prevent suicide and help bereaved people feel able to live good lives after unthinkable loss, I promise you that this is a huge under served demographic.
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
luckyerica3.bsky.social
In 2026, I would love to see peer led/user led support spaces for bereaved by suicide people who also need to talk about their suicidal feelings. I don't know that these spaces exist and they are so needed, this intersection of grief and suicide is so isolating.
January 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
estradiolivia.northsky.social
juvenile elephants
In his last year of living as a woman—the year in which Ames stopped being so angry with how cis people treated trans people and he started growing sad and contemplative about how trans women treat each other—he came up with a private, not-particularly-catchy term for the trans women of his cohort. [...] He called them juvenile elephants. [...] In 2002, park rangers in the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa hunted down and shot a gang of three juvenile elephants that had made a sport of chasing, raping, and killing rhinoceroses. The elephant gang raped and murdered sixty-three rhinos before the park rangers caught up with them. In Sierra Leone, another herd of elephants razed a village of three hundred, flattening the mud-and-wattle homes, and killing an elderly woman who attempted to chase them away. A young elephant in that pack, barely full-grown, pinned the woman to the ground with a knee, and slowly gored his tusk through her chest with malicious precision. Toward the end of the civil war in Northern Uganda, Karamojong villagers began to leave out poison-laced elephant snacks, to retaliate against raids by the legally protected elephants of nearby Kidepo Park, who smashed the homes in the adjacent villages to get drunk on the fermenting fruit the Karamojong used to brew wine. Perhaps the villagers needn’t have bothered. Since the midnineties, ninety percent of male elephant deaths in South African game parks could be attributed to murder by other roving gangs of pachydermicidal elephants, a fifteen hundred percent increase in elephant-on-elephant violence over previous decades. Ames learned all this in an essay titled “Elephant Breakdown,” published in the science journal Nature, in which a group of leading elephant behaviorists argued that the abnormal quality and frequency of elephant attacks and violence could no longer be understood through the long-standing reasoning that suggested high levels of testosterone in young males or competition for scant land and resources. No, the behaviorists argued, the younger generation of elephants suffered from a form of chronic stress, a species-wide trauma that has led to a total and ongoing breakdown of elephant culture. The cause is simple: Throughout their long history, elephants have lived in intricately ordered social structures. Young elephants learned their place and healthy behavior in concentric societal rings of caregivers—birth mother, aunts, grandmothers, friends—relationships that might last a lifetime: seventy years or more. Unless orphaned, young elephants stay within fifteen feet of their mothers for the first eight years of their lives. When an elephant dies, her family members grieve and ritually mourn. The bereaved conduct weeklong vigils by the body, covering it with brush and rubbing their trunks along the teeth of the lower jaw of the carcass, a gesture of greeting among live elephants. This millennial generation of elephants is an orphan generation. In the last few decades, humans have murdered, mutilated, or displaced an entire generation of older elephants who might have bestowed upon this generation the familial, societal, and emotional skills required to handle one’s individual fifteen thousand pounds of muscle and bone, through which courses intolerable memories of pain, trauma, and grief. Trans women are juvenile elephants. We are much stronger and more powerful than we understand. We are fifteen thousand pounds of muscle and bone forged from rage and trauma, armed with ivory spears and faces unique in nature, living in grasslands where any of the ubiquitous humans may or may not be a poacher. With our strength, we can destroy each other with ease. But we are a lost generation. We have no elders, no stable groups, no one to teach us to countenance pain. No matriarchs to tell the young girls to knock it off or show off their own long lives lived happily and well. Those older generations of trans women died of HIV, poverty, suicide, repression, or disappeared to pathologized medicalization and stealth lives—and that’s if they were lucky enough to be white. They left behind only scattered exhausted voices to tell the angry lost young when and how the pain might end—to tell us what will be lost when we lash out with our considerable strength, or use the fragile shards of what remain of our social networks to ostracize, punish, and retaliate against those who behave in a traumatized manner. “And so we become what we have seen. How could we know not to? Have you seen many orphaned juvenile elephants behaving otherwise?”
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
uk-charity.bsky.social
A personal loss has fueled a rep's commitment to support colleagues affected by suicide. How can we better support those in grief? #MentalHealthAwareness

https://polfed.org/northyorks/news/2026/reps-personal-loss-driving-support-for-colleagues-bereaved-by-suicide/
A North Yorkshire Federation rep who lost her dad to suicide is using her lived experience to ensure colleagues never have to face the same pain alone.
polfed.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
daddyblackbird.bsky.social
‼️ People bereaved by suicide are 65% more likely to take their own life ‼️

Grief after suicide often comes with guilt, shame, and stigma.

These feelings can isolate and silence people who most need support.

We must break the silence, not add to it.

#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #Grief #Hope
Stigma deepens the pain of suicide loss
January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social
✍️ I've joined cross-party colleagues in writing to Ofcom about a harmful suicide forum.

Bereaved families have shown immense courage in campaigning for the Online Safety Act. However, years later, after it's been passed, this site remains.
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
luckyerica3.bsky.social
Maybe what we're wrestling with here is how afraid our culture is of stepping into the unknown territory of talking about suicide, as a society, we're still so hung up on contagion and getting it wrong that we'll* neglect to try to get it right.

*not shaming individuals who tried and are bereaved.
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
sapporodaskapital.bsky.social
Adults in the Student Suicide Case ~Media Edition~
The Bereaved Family of a High School Student Submits Over 64,000 Signatures to the Government Calling for Legal Reform: “Penalties Should Be Imposed on Schools”
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The Bereaved Family of a High School Student Submits Over 64,000 Signatures to the Government Calling for Legal Reform: “Penalties Should Be Imposed on Schools” - Tansa
The bereaved family submitted 64,792 signatures to the
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December 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
notthevoiduk.bsky.social
We explored themes such as hope, ambivalence, the traumatic aftermath of surviving an attempt, building supoort networks, abuse, advanced directives, the inadequacy of academic research that isn't user led, the intersection of being bereaved by suicide and being suicidal ourselves.
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM