title: Case study of a survivor of suicide who lost all family members through parent-child collective suicide.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  South Korea is characterized by a high percentage of parent-child collective suicide.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This case study explores one individual's personal experience as an adult survivor of suicide who lost his wife and his only son through parent-child collective suicide in South Korea.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study reports data from a semistructured interview, which were analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two themes were identified through the analysis of the narratives of the survivor. The first theme provides a detailed picture of the survivor's explanation of why the parent-child collective suicide occurred. The second theme examines how the participant experienced complicated bereavement after his heart-breaking loss of both wife and son.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We discuss the importance of support from other people or grief experts for the survivors of suicide who lose family to collective suicide.
authors.affiliation: <location>Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA</location>
authors.forename: Eunjin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: <location>Contemporary China Studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford University, UK</location>
authors.forename: Sung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Won Kim
authors.affiliation: <location>Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA</location>
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Enright
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D006117:Grief; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family; D056910:Republic of Korea; D018454:Spouses; D013405:Suicide; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D017741:Survivors
keywords: culture; filicide–suicide; idiographic; interpretative phenomenological analysis; parent–child collective suicide; survivors of suicide