Why I Still Talk About Maddie
People wonder why I still talk about my daughter. She died in 2015, she was fourteen, and there's a quiet expectation that a dead child gets a shorter runway than a living one. This is my answer. It's about who Maddie actually was, the videos she left behind without meaning to, what it costs me to tell her story, and why the silence people offer out of kindness is the hardest part.
The hardest part of losing a child isn't what most people think.
The hardest part of losing a child is not the funeral. It is learning to live with the guilt, unanswered questions, and fear that your child will be forgotten. Chris Coulter shares what grief looks like ten years after losing his daughter Maddie and offers practical ways to support bereaved parents with compassion, presence, and remembrance.