A postbox is now in place at Lytham Crematorium so that people can write and send letters to loved-ones who have passed away.
The Letters To Heaven postbox was unveiled today, along with a special Talking Bench to help the bereaved, especially those who have lost someone to suicide.
The Letters To Heaven postbox was unveiled today, along with a special Talking Bench to help the bereaved, especially those who have lost someone to suicide.
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00:00 Unfortunately I lost my son to suicide in May the 4th 2019 which is what's put me on
00:11 this path where I've tried to help others within our community that have lost loved
00:15 ones whether it be your children, whether it be your parents, your grandparents, a loss
00:20 is a loss and it's devastating.
00:22 One of the things I came across in November last year was a young girl from down I think
00:28 Nottingham, she lost her grandparents and her mum works at a crematorium and she actually
00:35 came up with the idea of a letters to heaven post box.
00:38 That resonated a lot with me through obviously losing Luke and it was trying to find that
00:45 pressure release valve within your head space and within your body and by putting those
00:52 emotions down in writing I found it really really helped me.
00:56 My son took his own life in 2016 at the age of 16.
01:00 At the time on the Foul Coast there wasn't any bereavement groups for anybody who lost
01:03 to suicide so I took it upon myself to open a bereavement group for people bereaved to
01:08 suicide.
01:09 Obviously James has been gone for 7 years now, this is actually the 7th bench we've
01:14 actually provided across the Foul Coast as talking benches which we took the idea from
01:18 the programme Afterlife.
01:22 So within our bereavement group we asked our friends who come to the group if they'd
01:27 like one donated in the names which is what we've done.
01:30 So this is the 7 years James has been dead, this is the 7th bench which we've put into
01:33 the community.
01:35 So this is the 7th bench which we've put into the community.
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