Let’s not forget the brothers and sisters of our children who have gone too soon

• We are the surviving siblings of The Compassionate Friends.
• We are brought together by the deaths of our brothers and sisters.
• Open your hearts to us, but have patience with us.
• Sometimes we will need the support of our friends.
• At other times we need our families to be there.
• Sometimes we must walk alone, taking our memories with us,continuing to become the individuals we want to be.
• We cannot be our dead brother or sister; however, a special part of them lives on with us.
• When our brothers and sisters died, our lives changed.
• We are living a life very different from what we envisioned, and we feel the responsibility to be strong even when we feel weak.
• Yet we can go on because we understand better than many others the value of family and the precious gift of life.
• Our goal is not to be the forgotten mourners that we sometimes are, but to walk together to face our tomorrows as surviving siblings of The Compassionate Friends.