How to cope with grief

Comfort for those in sorrow: Those who have lost loved ones no longer have to grieve alone with the help of a grief share support group.

With a strong support system, the grieving can learn to live again.

ESTHER would have turned eight this year. It is not hard to imagine her, pretty as a princess, in a pink ballet costume, with her hair swept in a cute updo. She would have taken to the cartoon Frozen, like countless other girls her age, and learned the theme song, Let It Go, by heart. But little Esther never made it past her third birthday. Seemingly overnight, the toddler died of an undetected brain tumour.