✧ A Voice for Those Who Have Been Silenced by Suicide
Grief and Loss In Motion now offers Psychological Autopsy Services for families and loved ones bereaved by suicide.
What Is a Psychological Autopsy?
A psychological autopsy is a careful, compassionate reconstruction of the events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors leading up to a loved one’s death by suicide. It involves interviews with family, friends, and others close to the deceased, review of records, and mapping of their mental state in the weeks before death.
When conducted with sensitivity, it helps survivors make sense of what happened, acknowledge their loss, and separate myths from reality.
Why It Matters: Empowering Survivors & Informing Prevention
Naming the complex causes: Rather than leaving survivors with unanswered “why”, a psychological autopsy can clarify mental health conditions, stressors, or warning signs that contributed.
Healing through narrative: The process supports building a meaningful story around the life—not just the death—of the loved one, aiding grief integration and meaning-making.
Contributing to prevention: Aggregated findings across cases help communities and professionals identify overlooked risk factors—improving policies, awareness, and prevention efforts.
Survivor Experiences & Benefits
Survivors often conduct their own informal investigations. Having a trained professional lead the process can reduce isolation, guilt, and self-blame For many, hearing the lifeline of their loved one's experiences—through interviews, records, and support—opens a path toward acceptance and peace.
What We Offer at Grief and Loss In Motion
Compassionate Intake & Consent: Sensitive invitations to loved ones for interviews, with clear emotional support and choice at every step.
Multidimensional Review: Reviewing medical, mental health, and social context along with interviews from family, friends, and professionals.
Narrative Report: A respectful, strengths‑based summary that honors the person’s life, helps survivors understand contributing factors, and identifies patterns.
Grief Support & Next Steps: Guidance on therapeutic meaning‑making, bereavement care, and sharing potential insights with prevention professionals.
Give Voice to Your Loved One, Heal Their Memory
Learn about mental health conditions, risk periods, or external stressors that may have contributed. Share insights with mental health or community resources to help prevent future tragedies. Build a durable, truthful biography—honoring how they lived, not how they died
You're Not Alone
Survivors of suicide loss often experience disenfranchised grief—grief that is not acknowledged by society, leaving people feeling unseen and isolated. You're invited into a safe, supported process—to bear witness to your loved one’s life and share your truth.
Connect With Us
If you’re a parent, sibling, child, or friend navigating a suicide loss, Grief and Loss In Motion is here to walk with you. Our Psychological Autopsy Services are offered with utmost respect, care, and confidentiality. Contact us for an initial consult and learn how this process may bring solace, insight, and a voice to your loss.
In the Spirit of Healing & Prevention
You not only honor memory—you may contribute to broader understanding that helps others. The act of caring, of turning grief into compassionate inquiry, can transform silence into purpose.
Service is offered in accordance with current ethical guidelines and survivor-informed best practices in postvention support (post-suicide care).