For anyone looking for someone to talk with about a new (or old) grief experience, the following are available:

• Tom Golden's Grief and Healing Discussion [GAHD], available via the web
  **recommended web based general discussion area

• The mailing list grief support groups at GriefNet.

• Several newsgroups:
  • alt.support.grief about humans
    or the soc.support.pregnancy.loss for pregnancy loss
    or the alt.support.grief.pet-loss for animal loss.
  • If you cannot connect to these newsgroups directly via these links, ask your Internet provider how to access a newsgroup.

• Transformations has a Grief and Loss support group. You can get to it via Internet Relay Chat or IRC.
  Using MIRC or PIRCH software:
  connect to server: chat.talkcity.com at port:6667
  and join #SUPPORTGROUP
  They meet every TUESDAY NIGHT from 8-10pm PT, 11pm-1am ET. Do join them!
  Transformations entire chat schedule
  Other chats from Transformations: PTSD, Cancer support, Caregivers support, Abuse survivors, Living Through Depression

• WidowNet has an IRC Chat for widows and widowers.
  No real schedule but most active Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays after 8:00pm EST
  WidowNet also has a Mailing List support group.

• A email discussions group called Suicide-Survivors is available.
  This list was highly recommended by a visitor named Susan who suggested I share this group with others.

• The Web Broadcasting System (WBS) has a chat area for Coping with a Child's Death.

• If you are a nursing professional, you should visit the 4Nurses chat area. Although not focused on death and dying, it is a gathering place for nursing professionals, and the subject of death and grief naturally comes up regularly. This area is not intended as a place for non-nurses to ask questions about death.

• If you are a nurse involved in HIV/AIDS care, you can join Moira and Robbie at the HIV/AIDS Chat at the Virtual Nurse site.