ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how working with the spiritual dimension of bereavement through suicide may be a way of connecting to an additional resource, in recent times referred to as spiritual capital. It focuses on research carried out with people who had lost someone in their family through suicide and who experienced a spiritual dimension to the bereavement process. The chapter also considers research in the area of bereavement, trauma and loss from a social psychological and spiritual perspective. It explores how the crisis of bereavement through suicide may have a very fundamental spiritual dimension. The chapter looks in more detail at the experiences of the people in the study. It discusses how a more spiritual approach to bereavement following suicide may provide a pathway to recovery from the trauma of suicide and some measure of accommodation of such a tragic loss.
