GriefNet is an Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss with 37 email support groups and two web sites. Their integrated approach to online grief support provides help to people working through loss and grief issues of all kinds. Their companion site, KIDSAID, provides a safe environment for kids and their parents to find information and ask questions.

 WidowNet is an information and self-help resource for, and by, widows and widowers. Topics covered include grief, bereavement, recovery, and other information helpful to people, of all ages, religious backgrounds and sexual orientations, who have suffered the death of a spouse or life partner. This popular site has been updated monthly since 1995.

The Grief and Loss Resource Center provides numerous annotated  links to grief and loss resources from the Kir Shalom site from the United Church of Canada. The site is divided into three sets of links. The first set includes grief and bereavement resources, called "Grief Links." The second set is devoted to various "losses" in our lives, other than death, that involve varying degrees of grief, called "Loss Links." The third set is comprised of links to Memorials collections.

 Crisis, Grief, and Healing is a place where men and women can use resources to understand and honor the many different paths to heal strong emotions. Tom Golden LCSW of Washington D.C. is an internationally known psychotherapist, author, and speaker on the topic of healing from loss. The page includes excerpts from his books Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing and A Man You Know is Grieving: 12 Ideas for Helping Him Heal From Loss.

 Bereavement Support from the Family Village provides several e-mail lists and bulletin board support groups for people dealing with grief and loss. Each of these groups focus on different groups of parents who have lost children -- loss in infancy, loss via miscarriage, and parenting after the loss of a child are just three of the special groups.

Psych Central is Dr. John Grohol's comprehensive annotated list of mental health resources. This highly acclaimed site is an index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people that has had a presence on the Internet since 1995 and has had almost two million visitors.

Someone in My Friend's Family Died, What Should I Do? is an article for children from Kids Health with tips on how to help a grieving friend. This is a very wise, compassionate article, and I highly recommend it for all children and many adults.

Children Coping With Grief and Dying: Books About Death, Loss, Illness, and Hope for Children and their Caregivers. This list of books dealing with aspects of grief and loss from the perspective of children was last updated in March of 1996 but still has some good choices.

How to Help Your Child Deal with Death is an informative article for parents from Kids Health on various ways they can help their children cope with the death of a loved one. It also lists recommendations of other resources.

Journey of Hearts: A Healing Place in Cyberspace is for anyone who has ever experienced a loss or significant life changes. This is a very comprehensive resource with many types of support and information available.

The Grieving Process from the Counseling Center at the University of Buffalo is geared towards college students with information on the grief process and helpful hints on how to help a bereaved student.

Motherloss is an online community of adult women whose mothers have died. It includes a newsletter and many pages of memorials of loved ones.

In the Memory Of .... is a place for those who are grieving to post their memories honoring loved ones.

 How to Help Ourselves Through the Holidays provides a list of twenty tips for making it through the holidays after the loss of a loved one.

 Remember the Love with the Loss During Holidays is a useful article from Jeffrey Savitskie of The Detroit News on surviving the holidays after a loved one has died.