What does the loss of children do to their parents?

Swiss Radio may be an old-fashioned medium with little impact, but it offers some great features on fascinating subjects. One such feature has been today's interview by senior literary moderator Hans Ulrich Probst of Italian writer Chiara Palazzolo on her novel published in Italy in 2003 "I bambini sono tornati" (Piemme, ISBN 8838472157), now available in a German translation "Die Kinder sind wieder da" (Bertelsmann, Munich, ISBN 3570009076).

In her novel, Palazzolo describes the torment of a young couple living in Calabria, Italy, after the accidental killing of their two children by a rowdy car driver, and the different modes of coping of the mother and the father. The process of mourning and coping is narrowly linked to and influenced by the local cultural background with it's omertà (the law of silence)...

The impression of the scenery and the psychological plot of the book was enhanced by Hans Ulrich Probst's technique of presenting the text with an acoustic overlay: The simultaneous lecture of the italian original by the Italian author in person and the German translation by actress Susanne Marie Wrage.
For those who would like to listen to the feature,check out the links Radio DRS2

Let's close for once with a recommendation instead of a question:
Chiara Palazzolo should be encouraged to publish her text in as many languages as possible.
The problems it addresses are far from comforting, but they might be helpful in the process of coping for parents who mourn the loss of their children worldwide