Everyone grieves differently within family circles and reckoning with these various ways can put stress and difficult feelings into play between family members and close friends. These differences can break apart one’s support system creating more loss and grieving. As a survivor it is necessary to know who, what, and where is safe and how you can protect yourself. New and unexpected details can emerge about your loved one’s life and death, producing a need to readjust one’s entire sense of the loss. Wills can be contested, lawsuits filed, and histories unraveled to reveal unknown life situations and calamities. Grieving is complicated by additional unknown information.

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