Memorials, Remembrances
and Celebrations Of Life
Everyone is invited and encouraged to submit items to each of the below listed memorials and celebrations of life. You need not be a member of our organization or any of our affiliates to send a submission.
If you would like to submit to one of the seasonal pages but it is not that particular time of year, please feel free to do so. All pages are open continuously for you to add whatever you would like in honor of your loved one.
We frequently add new memorials, remembrance and celebrations to our site. Please stop back often to see what is new. It may be of interest to you!
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Behind The Badge ~ A Tribute To Those Lost To Suicide
The badges above represent some jobs performed by gallant men and women. Those "Behind The Badge" may be a Police Officer, Sheriff, State Highway Patrol Officer, Firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, Federal Law Enforcement Officer or Emergency Phone Operator. In countries outside of the U.S., the job titles may vary slightly but the work is the same.
Behind The Mask
Behind The Mask - Our New Normal, was created as a place to share what we have become. Since the loss of our loved ones to suicide, we are not the same. We are forever changed. A large portion of the person our friends and families once knew, died with our loved one.
Candlelighting
Our Candle Lighting was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide. You may light a candle in honor of your loved one.
~ Comforting Dreams ~
Sharing Our Comforting Dreams was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide, as a healing tool for those of us left behind. It helps us to know that we are not alone in our dreams and gives us a place to share them.
~ Heavenly Stars ~
Our Heavenly Stars, was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide. Place a star in the heavens for your loved one.
"Memories"
Treasured Memories ~ was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide, as a healing tool for those of us left behind. It gives us a place to share interesting, funny, sad, proud and other memorial moments in which we spent with the ones' we remember and our lives together with them. Treasured Memories also provides a place for the visitors of our site to get to know our loved one's.
Most Beautiful Virtual Quilt
Our Beautiful Virtual Memorial Quilt was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide. Here, you may place a quilt square in memory of your loved one.
Our Angels
Our Precious Angels Album is a place where you may place a photo of your precious loved one lost to suicide.
Our Flower Garden
Our beautiful flower garden is a place that you may add a flower in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide.
Our Family Photographs
Our Family Photographs was created to provide suicide survivors a place to share the various family photos that seem not to fit on our other special memorial pages. Survivors may share their precious family photos and stories of all the wonderful memories their family created and that they hold dear to their hearts.
Our Family Photographs, also gives survivors the opportunity to share the "other people" in their lives... after all, those "other people" are just as important as the one's we have lost.
Our Stories
Sharing Our Angels' Stories was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide, as a healing tool for those of us left behind. It helps us to know that we are not alone in our grief and suffering after suicide. It gives us a place to share our loved one's lives and our stories.
Poetry and Prose
Many items of grief poetry and prose. Some were written by famous artists while others were written by not so famous artists who are also survivors of a loved ones' suicide.
Releasing Regrets Bonfire
Releasing Regrets Bonfire ~ was created as a healing tool for those of us left behind after the suicide of a friend or family member. It gives us a place to put into writing and release the regrets we have surrounding the loss of the ones' we remember. Here we can leave our regrets in the bonfire, let them go up in smoke, stop carrying them around with us and move forward without regrets any longer. Release your regrets and let the healing begin!
Sharing Their Inner Light
Here, we share the links to the beautiful and heartfelt websites created by those who have suffered a suicide loss of someone very dear to them. Contributors are anyone with a memorial website, such as parents, siblings, friends and other relatives of a special someone lost to suicide. Everyone is welcome to send links for inclusion on this page, you need not be a member of any of our affiliated groups.
Siblings Section ~ Fountains Of Youth
Siblings are invited to send items they wish to be placed on this page. Things you may want to post here, but are not limited to:
Photos
Writings
Artwork
Stories
And whatever else you desire.
The sky is the limit!
Signs From Loved One's
Survivors of suicide may share signs that they have received from their lost loved ones.
Special Memorials
Special Memorials is where we can find help with ideas and special ways to memorialize those we have lost. It also gives us a place to share them
To Heaven, With Love
Letters to Heaven, With Love ~ helps us to know that we are not alone in our thoughts and feelings and gives us a place to share them. Send a letter to your loved one in Heaven...
Victims Of Suicide Memorial
The Victims Of Suicide Memorial was created, with love and compassion, as a remembrance of those who died, tragically, by suicide.
Each name represents a beautiful person and a life with unfulfilled potential and promises of the future.
All walks of life and age variations are represented, as proof, that suicide knows, absolutely, no boundaries.
We hope that our remembrances will bring about awareness of suicide and that each visitor will develop the desire to learn more about this epidemic and how to prevent it.
Virtual Cemetery
Our Virtual Cemetery was created in memory of our loved one's lost to suicide. It gives us a place to share their resting place with others who may like to visit but the miles between us will not allow for a visit. You may also leave a flower at the resting place, if you would like.
*Special Holidays*
Halloween Memories
Here you will find, ghoulish and humorous photos and stories of Happy Halloween's past, shared with our loved one's lost to suicide.
In some cases we even share our excitement and laughter as we share the narrative of each photo. It is healing to laugh, so we'll share a little Halloween fun here.
Thanksgiving Blessings
Those of us, remembering a loved one lost to suicide, Thanksgiving is the beginning, of the most difficult time of the year. It is hard to think of blessings and happiness when there is a member of our family missing.
We must remember, that our loved one's may be gone from our sight, but they are still with us. They live on in our hearts. They did not want us to live in such deep sadness. They would want us to go on living, loving, and even laughing. In their name, we can enjoy the season.
Thanksgiving Blessings, was created as a way for us to share the blessings we have received throughout the year. It is a tool to help us keep things in perspective. Some blessings may be so routine or small, that we don't always recognize them. With all the pain we endure, it is healing to see that there are good things in our lives, no matter how minuscule.
Peaceful Holiday Season
No matter where you live, this is a "happy" time of year. For suicide survivors, it is a time of sharing memories of the special person they have lost, loneliness - especially, if the person they lost was all that they had, wishing that their loved one was still on this Earth and sometimes, the holidays create great pain.
We have created this special holiday page as a tool to help survivors remember and memorialize the one they have lost, in an effort to ease their pain and aid them on their healing journey.
New Year's Reflections And Hopes
Our New Year's Reflections And Hopes was created as a healing tool for survivors and to help them through the transition of a new year. Survivors are invited to submit reflections, future hopes & dreams, resolutions, or whatever they would like in regards to their thoughts and feelings about the passing of another year.
Valentine's Day
We have created this beautiful page as a celebration to acknowledge the love shared with friends and family members who help carry us through our healing journey and of the love we shared with those we have lost. On the following pages, you are invited to share the photos and stories of the love you share with those who are by your side through thick and thin (family, friends, pets, etc...) and photos and stories of the love you shared with the one you have lost, precious Valentine mementoes, such as cards or notes, if you would like to share them.
Easter Joy Remembered
As suicide survivors, we have many beautiful Easter memories, kept safely inside our hearts and memories. Each one is a moment in time that is very precious to us. The Easter joy that we created with those we have lost to suicide and now remember, can never be taken away.
Easter Joy Remembered was created as a place where suicide survivors could share all of their precious Easter celebration memories created with the one they have lost.
Our Mother's Day Celebration
We have created this special Mother's Day Celebration in honor of all mother's affected by a suicide loss. All of these beautiful mom's are always in our hearts and minds as they try to go through life, nurturing, loving and all of the other wonderful things that mother's do, as they also try to recover from suicide grief. Some mother's are those that have lost a child, some are those that have lost a brother, sister or friend. All mother's are honored here, no matter their relationship to the one they have lost. To continue you on each day while grieving is very deserving of our acknowledgements.Here, you may share all forms of Mother's Day thoughts, feelings, desires or whatever you would like.
Our Graduation Day Celebrations
Our Graduation Day Celebrations was created to give suicide survivors a place to proudly share their loved one's graduation ceremonies and celebrations.
Some may want to share graduation pictures, announcements, programs and other items.
Others may want to share special things they did in recognition of their loved one's ~ who did not get to see their graduation day. Some may have handed out special memorial cards and would like to share them here. Others may have pictures of graduation with an honorary chair placed by classmates for their loved one.
There may even be some who would just like to acknowledge their loved one's graduation day here, who have created their own special celebration items.
Whatever you would like to share, is welcome.
Our Memorial Day Remembrances
Our Memorial Day Remembrances was created to remember all of the brave soldiers whether they went to war or not and who were fighting a war within themselves. The soldiers remembered here were fighting a war with a mental illness, such as depression. While they may have survived a military action, they were unable to survive the battlefield in their minds. These gallant soldiers died by suicide and will never be forgotten.
Father's Day Celebration
We have created this special Father's Day Celebration in honor of all father's affected by a suicide loss. All of these wonderful dads are always in our hearts and minds as they try to go through life being our pillars of strength, always protecting and loving us, while they try to recover from suicide grief. Some fathers are those that have lost a child, some are those that have lost a brother, sister or friend. All fathers are honored here, no matter their relationship to the one they have lost. Your efforts to continue on each day while grieving is very deserving of our acknowledgements.Here, you may share all forms of Father's Day thoughts, feelings, desires or whatever you would like.
The Asian Tsunami and Suicide Related Issues
Asian Tsunami Memorial
Tsunami, photos, poems, statistics, information and guest book which you may leave flowers and/or a candle with your message. Please allow extra load time.
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