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Friends Missing Friends
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What we're here to reimagine...
I reimagine a world in which friend-loss grief is acknowledged and fully witnessed; in which people grieving friends can find an accessible plethora of resources; in which platonic love is treated equally to romantic and familial love.
Story
Friends are our chosen family. And yet — there are so few resources for people grieving friends. This is an ENORMOUS gap in the world of grief support.
When my best friend died suddenly in 2015, I had no idea where to turn. There were no friend-loss grief groups (10 years later, there still are hardly any). I had no idea how to find people to lean on, learn from, and grieve with.
That’s why in...
Friends are our chosen family. And yet — there are so few resources for people grieving friends. This is an ENORMOUS gap in the world of grief support.
When my best friend died suddenly in 2015, I had no idea where to turn. There were no friend-loss grief groups (10 years later, there still are hardly any). I had no idea how to find people to lean on, learn from, and grieve with.
That’s why in 2023, I founded Friends Missing Friends — a community to guide and comfort people after the death of a friend. My mission and calling is to keep speaking up about friend-loss, and to nurture a community where friend-loss grievers feel seen and understood.
- Hannah Rumsey (Founder)
Friends are our chosen family. And yet — there are so few resources for people grieving friends. This is an ENORMOUS gap in the world of grief support.
When my best friend died suddenly in 2015, I had no idea where to turn. There were no friend-loss grief groups (10 years later, there still are hardly any). I had no idea how to find people to lean on, learn from, and grieve with.
That’s why in 2023, I founded Friends Missing Friends — a community to guide and comfort people after the death of a friend. My mission and calling is to keep speaking up about friend-loss, and to nurture a community where friend-loss grievers feel seen and understood.
- Hannah Rumsey (Founder)
