Honouring and Memorializing Infant Loss
Cobourg Union Cemetery and Campbell Monuments
Grief is a natural response to loss and unique to the individuals experiencing it. There is no right or wrong way to feel. Your feelings may change over time, or there may be things that trigger emotion. Many people experiencing pregnancy loss under 20 weeks of gestation may feel alone in their grief with no traditional way of honouring an early pregnancy loss. You may wish to honour your pregnancy loss and memorialize your experience to give grace and dignity to the life you carried. Parent have the right to ask for the burial of any loss, no matter the timing or age of the loss.
WE ARE OFFERING A SPACE
TO MEMORAILIZE INFANTS
AT LESS THAN 20 WEEKS
OF GESTATION
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This service is for those losses less then 20 weeks or 500 grams that have not been registered as a birth.
This service is also for those losses, including stillbirths, that have occurred in the past and have not been memorialized, or for losses that have happened elsewhere yet the parents wish to memorialize here at this time.
HOW IS THIS ACHIEVED?
By memorialization through engraving the community monument with the name of your loss.
Burial is an option with or without a religious service.
The community monument is located in Cobourg Untion Cemetery and offers a place for families and friends to honour the infant loss.
The pink and blue ribbon is a symbol for acknowledgment of infant loss awareness, including loss during and after pregnancy, stillbirth, miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, neonatal death, and SIDS.
