Focusing on creating mourning rituals for special needs people, this guide offers specific rituals and techniques for caregivers to use while helping explain death and dying. With more than 20 examples, this work aims to lend to the understanding of grief and sadness for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults and adolescents.

This volume addresses what to expect from grieving young people, and how to provide safe outlets for children to express emotion. Included in each book are tested, sensitive ideas for "carpe diem" actions that people can take right this minute while still remaining supportive and honoring the mourner's loss.