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Windmills is a registered charity that provides direct specialist bereavement care and support for children and young people who are, or will be, facing the death of a loved-one, or someone very close. This might be the sudden, often unexpected death of a sibling, parent, or friend, or due to a limited-life diagnosis due to a terminal illness. Facing the reality or news of the death of such a loved one can be deeply traumatic and disorientating for the surviving child. Often the response is a cauldron of confusions and emotions; anger, disbelief, guilt, anguish, withdrawal, detachment and numbing fears for all that is yet to come. Without expert and trusted care and support, such responses can irrevocably scar and derail a young person’s life and outlook and negatively shape their relationships, not only with death itself, but with life and living, themselves, their family, and their friends and the wider community. Windmills’ specialist acute bereavement nurses work one-to-one with the bereaved child and their family and helps them turn the anger, trauma and negativity around, shaping death’s sudden arrival into a positive, managed and contained acceptance of death’s inevitability and the building of sustaining and fulfilling fond memory mementos. Death is a reality we all face and which cannot be avoided, and for young people in Windmills care it can be resolutely faced, its emotions controlled and managed, and its impact greatly appeased. Windmills’ nurses will often be the first ones to share with the child the news about the death, or its imminence. The nurses provide a caring, empathetic and expert support to the child and will help guide them through all the confusions and emotions that news of a loved-ones death will inevitably bring.

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