Second Edition On Halloween 2002, Jan Andersen’s 20-year-old son Kristian found a permanent solution to his misery. Suicide. He wrote two suicide notes, took an overdose of Heroin and died on Friday 1 November 2002. Chasing Death attempts to put candid, but heartrending words to the often incommunicable pain that the surviving families endure, not only through the telling of Kristian’s story, but through the experiences of other families mourning the loss of a child, stepchild, grandchild, sibling, friend or relative to suicide. Although this book will break your heart, it will also provide solace to other child suicide grievers in knowing that their thoughts and feelings are normal and that they are not alone, in addition to being helpful to anyone who has lost a child or has been bereaved in any way. This book clearly demonstrates how debilitating the grief can be and how it can still cripple a survivor, ten, twenty, thirty and even forty years or more after the event. The audience for Chasing Death extends beyond grieving families and those who deal with them and will provide a compelling, touching and enlightening read for anyone interested in emotional true life stories. It will also help people respond with greater understanding and sensitivity to the surviving families’ grief.
Jan Andersen has been a professional freelance writer, copywriter and book editor since 1999, before which she had pursued a marketing and PR career spanning 21 years, between giving birth to four children; Kristian, Anneliese, Carsten and Lauren.
She writes compelling and diverse commercial copy for a broad spectrum of industries and contributes informative, inspirational and often humorous articles, features and columns on a wide range of topics to online and print media and books around the world, in addition to ghostwriting and editing books for other authors. She is also the author of two fertility e-books; Enhancing Fertility After Age 40 and Improve Your Fertility Naturally.
Jan also owns and runs several websites single-handedly, all of which she also designed, including the world's premier resource for older mothers, Mothers Over 40 (http://www.mothersover40.com), Child Suicide (http://childsuicide.org), a supportive resource for families who have lost a child to suicide and Jan Andersen Writing Services (http://www.creativecopywriter.org), which is Jan's personal business site.
Jan has participated in numerous national and international radio and TV programmes as a result of her websites and written work.
Jan lives with her partner and their youngest daughter Lauren Erica.
