b'Bob Baugher and Jack Jordan, After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief. (See bibliography)You may never know exactly why your loved one ended their life, but over time, learning more about suicide can help you to understand what may have contributed to their death. It is important to note that you do not have to have all of the answers to begin to heal, and many suicide loss survivors find that learning about what contributes to suicide can be helpful.Suicide Bereavement 101Survivors often wonder how bereavement after suicide compares to bereavement after other kinds of death.Jack Jordan, a psychologist who has studied suicide bereavement, describes three aspects that research shows make suicide grief unique:1. Suicide loss survivors seem to struggle more with questions of meaning-making around the death (Why did they do it?) . survivors often struggle to make sense of the motives and frame of mind of the deceased.2.Suicide loss survivors show higher levels of feelings of guilt, blame, and responsibility for the death than other mourners (Why didnt I prevent it?). . Occasionally, survivors feel that they directly caused the death through mistreatment or abandonment of the deceased. More frequently, they blame themselves for not anticipating and preventing the actual act of suicide .3.Suicide loss survivors experience heightened feelings of rejection or abandonment by the loved one, along with anger toward the deceased (How could they do this to me?).6 Surviving a Suicide Loss'