Losing a parent is difficult at any age, but for a child the loss can seem almost unbearable.
After the death of a parent, children can experience all the same emotions that adults do, including intense shock, anger and a sense of guilt or responsibility.
Randi Gilmore, a Burrillville mother of five, saw all of those emotions in her children after her 51-year-old husband, Robert, died suddenly from a massive heart attack – five weeks after the death of his own mother on March 21, 2007.