Grief counselor's family tragedy is a teaching tool

LaQuita Suggs always had a fascination with the way people deal with death — even if her mother thought she was a little morbid.

While studying social work in college, Suggs volunteered to go to hospitals to talk to families in the moments after they had lost a loved one. When she later became a counselor, she worked with clients whose grief was sometimes difficult to comprehend.

There were the children whose father had shot their mother to death. In one grim moment, five siblings lost both their parents.