A Moment of Grace: Child Death in the United States

Abstract

This chapter explores that in order to read about grief, the reader will have to read about love. They are, after all. inextricably entwined; you cannot have one without the other; you cannot understand the depth of love for a human being without understanding the depths of despair when that person is gone. There are three different stories in this chapter conveying and evoking different emotions yet each story is about the same person. There are three different stories, told more than 10 years after the death of our beloved daughter and sister Grace Susie Bain. They are memory stories of a life too brief in this world, too short, and yet, Grace continues to live on in our family in ways none of us could have ever imagined. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)