Context Suicide bereavement remains understudied and poorly understood. Objectives To
examine outcomes of parents bereaved by the suicide death of their offspring and to
compare these with both nonbereaved parent controls and parents who had offspring die in
a motor vehicle crash (MVC). Design Population-based case-control study. Suicide-
bereaved parents were compared with nonbereaved matched control parents in the general
population (n= 1415) and with MVC-bereaved parents (n= 1132) on the rates of physician …