Bereavement is something that affects us all. When someone dies, people who were close to them have lots of different feelings. We may feel sad or feel that something is missing from their lives. Sometimes, the death means changes to our lives and we think about how life was and perhaps we worry about how things are going to be now.

Because of our feelings and the changes that may happen, we often spend a lot of time remembering the person who has died, what they gave to us and our lives, what they mean to us now that we can look back over their whole life, and how we really feel about them. We get them and their lives in proportion, balance up the good and bad things that we have thought and felt about them.

This CD-ROM suggests some things that you might like to use to help you do this thinking and feeling for yourself. You certainly don’t have to use all of it, or any of it. But if some part of it seems interesting and useful to you, why not have a go? One of the activities suggests making a book or file about the person who has died. You can print off some of the activities for your file or book. But it’s your CD-ROM; so feel free to look at anything you want to.