Through a Parent’s Tears:

Navigating Suicide Loss

About the Documentary Series

Through a Parent’s Tears:

Navigating Suicide Loss

Produced By	:	Through a Parent’s Tears Foundation
Genre	:	Documentary Series

Through a Parent’s Tears: Navigating Suicide Loss, is a documentary series about surviving loss.

Melinda Vail, a nationally known medium, helps parents connect with their children who died without warning.

She provides evidential proof that all children in the documentary are still very present in their families’ lives.

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Meet The Kids

Thomas Campagnolo

Parents: Tom & Denise Campagnolo

Thomas was the oldest of our two children. He has a little sister Emily. He was extremely intelligent, so obvious from a young age. He was kind-hearted and so well liked at school by his friends. They wrote on Facebook after he died, “I knew Thomas since elementary school. To this day I have never met someone with a more genuine, kind heart. He would always wave or say hello whenever we saw each other and was always always always smiling. With a heavy heart, I say he will truly be missed.”...

Brandon Campbell

Parent: Sharie Campbell

Brandon was a very smart and kind boy. As a small child, he loved to use his imagination to play with Dinosaurs, anything Star Wars related, and read books. He had a lot of medical problems and was diagnosed with Failure to Thrive as a baby and had to be fed through a tube in his stomach, so he was used to many quiet indoor activities. He loved playing with his older sister as well, and she was very attentive to him. As he got older, his medical difficulties improved. He got SCUBA certified at age 10...

Michael Choppi

Parents: Mike and Kim Choppi

Growing up Michael was a child in constant motion. If he did not have a ball in his hand or a soccer-ball at his foot, he was constructing masterpieces with his legos and lincoln logs. He would terrorize his siblings in one moment and in the next cover for and protect them. He was goofy and kind and loved without condition. His talents on the soccer field earned him a scholarship to a four-year university that unfortunately, his “broken” knee would not allow him to pursue. His knee took him off the competitive....

Joss Schiro

Parents: Steve and Theo Schiro

In the spring of 2011, our 21-year-old son Joss was a senior at Arizona State University, ready to graduate with degrees in both psychology and biology. He was a passionate and brilliant student, fascinated by current brain research. He had plans to continue his studies of neuroscience and earn a doctorate.

Growing up, Joss had a curious mind. He believed information was the key to life....