title: [Family, Suicide and Mourning].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Death is an event that always breaks into family life in a surprising way. Of all the deaths, suicide is the one which more strongly questions the functionality of a family and increases the risk of difficulties in the mourning process. Families in which a suicide has occurred are exposed to a greater possibility of disintegration, disorganization and pathological expressions in their members.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present a reduced and circumscribed narrative revision, restricted to examine the relationship between suicide and the mourning process in the family.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The suicide of a loved one is an event that may contribute to pathological grief and mental dysfunctions in surviving relatives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Death in the family is a natural phenomenon. However, death by suicide is one of the phenomena that can generate more alterations in the structure and organization of the family, due to the difficulty related to the mourning process.
authors.affiliation: Médico psiquiatra. Profesor asociado, fellow de Psiquiatría de Enlace, psicoterapeuta de familia, pareja e individual. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Social, Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: jose_garciandia@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Garciandía Imaz
keywords: Death; Duelo; Familia; Family; Mourning; Muerte; Suicide; Suicidio