Support built specifically for people bereaved by suicide, which is not the same as other grief.
Also searched as: suicide bereavement, survivor of suicide loss, postvention.
Peer support for adults bereaved by suicide, run by people who have been bereaved by suicide themselves.
Call the SOBS helpline
Open 9am to 9pm, every day.
Every day 09:00–21:00
Checked 25 August 2026 against their own page
Find a SOBS support group
Groups run in person across the UK and online.
Hours not confirmed
Checked 25 August 2026 against their own page
General bereavement support across the UK, with a dedicated strand for people bereaved by suicide.
Cruse support after a suicide
Hours not confirmed
Checked 25 August 2026 against their own page
An umbrella body whose directory lists suicide-bereavement services across the UK, including many local ones.
Search the SASP directory
Hours not confirmed
Checked 25 August 2026 against their own page
Runs suicide-loss support groups across the United States, and publishes a finder for them.
Free professional counselling for anyone affected by suicide — including scheduled call-backs, not just a single conversation.
Free, professional therapy for people in suicidal distress or engaging in self-harm, plus a 24-hour crisis line.
Call Pieta, free, 24 hours a day
Open 24 hours, every day
Checked 18 September 2026 against their own page
Text HELP to 51444
Standard message rates apply.
Open 24 hours, every day
Checked 18 September 2026 against their own page
France's national suicide prevention line, answered by health professionals, free and 24/7 from anywhere in the country.
A long-running French association listening line, anonymous and open 24/7, separate from the national 3114 number.
Flanders' suicide prevention line — phone, chat and email, free and open every hour of the day.
A French-language suicide prevention listening line for Wallonia and Brussels, free, anonymous and open around the clock.
Call the Ligne d'écoute
Free from any phone in Belgium, 24 hours a day. Serves French-speaking Belgium; Dutch-speaking callers are served by Zelfmoordlijn 1813.
Open 24 hours, every day
Checked 25 August 2026 against their own page
Denmark's suicide prevention line, staffed by trained volunteers, plus chat and email.
Call Livslinien
Every day 09:00–05:00
Checked 27 August 2026 against their own page
Spain's national suicidal-behaviour helpline, run by the Ministry of Health — free, confidential and 24/7.
Hong Kong's suicide prevention hotline, confidential and free.
Hong Kong's 24-hour suicide prevention hotline, run separately from the Samaritan Befrienders.
What to say to the organisation, in what order, and the specific things that make an already terrible week worse.
The support that matters is mostly not in the first fortnight. It is in the year that follows, when everyone else has moved on.
The single highest-stakes document on this site. Read it before you need it, because you will not have time to read it carefully when you do.
Parents will find out. What they are told, and how quickly, determines whether they become part of the response or a second problem.