Along those same lines, at one of the October 15 events that I attended this year, I met a young guy named Timothy. I think it was about a month previous that he had just experienced a loss. You could still see the pain on his face. He was still incredibly traumatized by the whole situation, and his story, when he told me, was very much what you just described.
First of all, they were put into a maternity ward while they were losing this baby, and they were seeing the joy of everyone having a child. No one did that on purpose, but that was a very difficult thing for him. Then they were just sort of told at the end, “Well, this is really common. Don't worry about it. It'll be fine.” Obviously that really hit him hard as well, and then they were just sent home with no information. They had no idea where to turn or what to do next.
I want you to speak to the importance of information being available to people on where to turn, but also the idea that there be some kind of assistance. You mentioned the automatic, universal.... I want you to speak a little bit to the importance of that because the last thing I think we want to be doing is putting people through experiences that are going to further traumatize them when they're trying to deal with their grief.
Can you speak to the importance of that automatic and universal nature of something that would be provided for parents?