In French, the children's novel L'homme qui écoutait battre le coeur des chats deals with the loss of a child from the father's perspective.

French author Pascal de Duve's celebrated journal Cargo Vie (1993) describes his struggle with terminal illness as well as profound heartbreak from a past relationship.

In Dutch, Ellis Middelhuis collected awareness-raising testimonies from people living with non-death loss,  in the (2024) volume Mensen met lef. Verhalen over verlies en veerkracht.

Belgian author Lara Taveirne wrote Wolf (2024), a book for adolescents about her brother Wolf, who took his own life at the age of 18.

Belgian grief & trauma therapist Lies Scaut's (2020) Dood zijn, is dat voor altijd? directly addresses school children in simple and honest language, concerning death and everything surrounding it.

Dutch child psychiatrist Riet Fiddelaers-Jaspers offers a similar approach for children dealing with traumatizing life events in De prins en het kasteel (2018).

Dutch creative therapist Larissa van der Molen put together Onzichtbaar verdriet (2023), a "practical workbook for children and youth in situations of loss".

An important pitfall in situations of loss is forgetting about the children. Adults may find it difficult to find the right words. Fortunately, some helpful literature exists.

In English, the Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts (2024, Carrie Traher and Lauren J. Breen, ed.) "presents the leading research in child and adolescent grief from a diverse and global perspective, focusing on the systemic, political, and cultural processes that have a direct bearing on the way youth experience loss and grief". 

(Chapter 9 is freely downloadable from https://www.routledge.com.)

In 2008, Dutch psychotherapists Erik Verliefde and Marta Stapert had the English translation published of their very practical guide "Focusing with Children: The art of communicating with children at school and at home".

In Kinderen in spagaat. Rouw na scheiding en overlijden (2013), Dutch therapist Leoniek van der Maarel addresses the adults caring for the children, on how to discuss death and divorce with them.

A more research-oriented perspective is proposed in Susan Roos' (2017) Chronic Sorrow: A Living Loss. It raises awareness of the enduring grief of living with losses that are not final, such as chronic illness or disability.

Dutch child psychiatrist Frits Boer offers a more practical approach in his (2012) Broers en zussen van speciale en gewone kinderen. Invloed op ontwikkeling en gedrag, which looks specifically at the impact of living loss on siblings.

In Dutch, Belgian therapist Mia Leijssen published Tijd voor de ziel (2007), a foundational work on how to integrate deeper understanding and processing into our daily lives, especially after bereavement.

In English, Robert A. Neimeyer's (2023) book Intervening in Meaning. An orientation to Grief Therapy proposes the author's extensive experience with the ways in which people may overcome grief by searching for meaning.

Austrian psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl's (2004) classic Man's Search for Meaning offers a testimony to the possibility of hope in the darkest of circumstances.