Decca Aikenhead explores being bereaved as a child. This week, she talks to Bridget, who, like Decca herself, lost her Mum to cancer when she was young. Decca wonders whether having time to prepare for a death makes bereavement for children easier or harder.

Cruse Bereavement Care: www.cruse.org.uk
Child Bereavement UK: https://childbereavement.org.