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Angelversary

You are in the section for Holidays/Angelversary. This is a word created by a bereaved parent and contributed to our Dictionary of Loss as follows:

Angelversary n. 1. This word denotes the annual date of a child's death. This day is just as important to a bereaved parent as a birthday, and stillbirth parents are marking both birth and death on the same day. So it is different than a regular birthday. While "anniversary" might work, that often seems to celebratory a word for this kind of day. Angelversary is our answer to describing this most difficult day.

Articles in this section have something to do with Angelversary days.

How to help bereaved parents?

Lots of people tell me they don't know how to help a bereaved parent on the birthday or angelversary day. Here are lots of ideas!
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Amazing Conversations

One parent asks other bereaved parents how best to cope with angelversary days....
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