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When you will never know why your child died

My baby died of SIDS and the medical examiner could not tell us why, and not knowing how or why makes me feel like I am going insane trying to understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The absence of explanation violates the parent's fundamental need for causation and meaning in catastrophic loss.

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