But what if there were such a thing as destiny? In a world where life and death are part of a great cycle or part of a greater plan than we mortals can know, we would still weep, still ache, still grieve for our children who are gone -- but we would not say "In some way I am responsible." And this makes all the difference in the world. The death of a child is an event of overwhelming loss that is never really forgotten. Yet our limited language and view of the afterlife inhibit any satisfactory answers to the questions we have after our children die. It seems to us not only tragic when a child dies, but unnatural. We suffer more because we can't fully comprehend the death of a child we love, and we somehow feel guilty, punished for something we've done or not done. "Finding Hope When a Child Dies" gives voice to the unpronounced fears and the consuming guilt that most people in Western cultures experience at the loss or children they have loved. It encourages us to understand the shift in our universe that occurs after the death of a child by showing us how this terrible event, common to people world-wide, is experienced diff