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As many of you know, my 21-year-old son, David Kessler Jr. died unexpectedly about three weeks ago. The pain of this loss has been shattering. In my work, I deal with challenging times but nothing...
His son, David, died three years ago of an accidental drug overdose at 21. The agony and paralysis that he felt — being a grief expert doesn’t exempt you from the pain — thawed eventually ...
Jan 17, 2021 · He was on a lecture tour when his son Richard, the eldest of two boys he had adopted in 2000, phoned to say his younger brother David, 21, had been found dead. As children they had a traumatic...
When someone dies by suicide it is a personal tragedy and not a criminal event or a success of any sort. We wouldn’t want to talk about about death by suicide in any way that we would speak of death by any other disease or trauma. “Life ends, but love is eternal.” – David Kessler. Please note: Nothing in this pertains to how we treat ...
In 2016, after his son David Kessler Jr. died from an accidental drug overdose amid the opioid crisis, Kessler received permission from Kübler-Ross's family and the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, which her son Ken Ross founded, to write Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, where he wrote about a sixth stage of grief, finding meaning.
Despite having spent much of his life teaching physicians, nurses, counselors, police officers and first responders about loss, nothing could prepare him for the death of his twenty-one-year-old son in 2016, David Jr. His work continues in honor of him.
