Cambridge mom gifts birthday cake to child in memory of late son (article)

loss of child
Written By Grief Matters
a woman sitting by a piano holding a photo of a baby.

By Bill Doucet

This mother from Cambridge, Ontario honored her son who died by gifting a birthday cake to a child with the same birthday.

Cambridge mom gifts birthday cake to child in memory of son

Grief Matters

Grief Matters is working to increase awareness of grief so that we all can better support ourselves, others, and our communities. The co-founders are Susan Cadell and Mary Ellen Macdonald. May Ellen is an anthropologist and Professor in Palliative Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She holds the J & W Murphy Foundation Endowed Chair in Palliative Care. Susan is a social work researcher at Renison University College in Waterloo, Ontario.

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