Editorial Introduction

In his final and fourth poem from The Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot wrote, “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time”, and these four lines describe well how the use of applied research (through the fulfilment of Eliot's suggestion that we will “know the place for the first time”) can create a positive change for the human condition. All too often research studies are revisits to and updates on topics resulting in confirmation of original research by previous explorers of that subject. Part V represents an effort to promote a new generation of explorers to advance into the subject of bereavement following suicide. These new explorers do “know the place for the first time” because they are not burdened with an agenda or a need to protect a conclusion they have already made. They are new eyes studying the effects that a cause of death as historic as death itself (suicide) can create for humankind.