Here are the topics I am tentatively looking at, depending on which ones flush out better.

 

Pre-death rituals

 

Comforting/self-disclosure

Social support

Pre-planning services

 

Immediate post-death rituals

 

Adolescents’ reactions to parent’s funeral

Adolescents’ bereavement over time/externalizing & internalizing behaviors

Parents’ reactions to news of child’s death

Grief

Obituaries

 

Long-term post-death rituals

 

Grieving if death seen as preventable vs. not preventable

Website memorials

Letters/communications to the deceased

Religious services/prayers

Anniversary of death