Have you recently lost someone to suicide?
Experiencing the loss of a loved one to suicide can be a profouondly isolating and challenging life experience. Lemon Aid would like to help.
Our Services
Do you need assistance paying for costs associated with the loss of your loved one to suicide, or need emotional and resource support? Lemon Aid may be able to help with costs associated with:
- Funerals and Memorial services
- Granite Memorials and Headstones
- Urns and Caskets
- Bio-Cleaning services & others
Apply For Assistance
We currently offer assistance in Michigan and Kansas. We are working hard to include other states. Please select your state below and the Lemon Aid staff will follow up as soon as possible to learn more about your needs and discuss options.
For information, please email us at info@sixftover.org.
Lemon Aid Applicant Requirements
- Suicide loss survivors who are residents of your state, or their loved one was a resident of your state
- Survivor experienced their loss within the last 12 months
- Applicant must be the next of kin, or a third party and/or organization assisting the next of kin with their explicit consent
- Death must be designated as suicide on the death certificate, or likely to be determined so, to begin the application process
- Residents, or loss survivors whose person died within the past 7 days and need biohazard clean up services
We Provide Support
Financial
We do our best to provide as much financial assistance as we can for each case. This assistance is dependent on the funds available at the time of the application. Some examples of covered services are: complete funeral services, cremation, grave markings and urns, obituaries, and death certificate copies, and various other after-death costs.
Emotional
Each case is assigned a Lemon Aid representative, often a mental health specialist, who provides informal, supportive conversations. Survivors can share their grief, talk about their loved one, discuss challenges, or simply find a space to express their emotions.
Resource
Lemon Aid recognizes that suicide loss survivors often need more than emotional support; they may also need housing, insurance, job training, and childcare. Our representatives work with applicants to connect them with resources aimed at building stability and growth beyond the immediate crisis.
How Financial Assistance Works
Explore Service Providers and Acquire Quotes
If a client has not found service providers to suit their needs at the time of their initial application, Lemon Aid can assist in helping them find those appropriate service providers and gather basic quotes based on applicant specifications. Lemon Aid does not hire service providers or plan services for clients.
- The applicant shares the wishes of the deceased and/or that of the next of kin, in regards to preferred service needs
- Lemon Aid will contact local service providers to inquire about costs and availability
- Lemon Aid connects the service provider and the client to work together on service planning
Outstanding Balance Payment
Many times, clients find us after services have been rendered and they owe a balance on those services. Lemon Aid steps in as the entity liable for payment of the owed funds if the case is approved.
- The client supplies invoices to the Lemon Aid representative
- Lemon Aid contacts the service providers to work out the best way for payment to be made directly to them
- Depending on the funds available, Lemon Aid may only be able to pay a portion of the outstanding balance
- Lemon Aid uses the service providers preferred method of payment
Payment Reimbursement
We often encounter clients that have borrowed money from others, as well as using funds they may have available to them personally. Lemon Aid will work with the applicant and those who helped fund the services to reimburse them.
- Lemon Aid will request supporting receipts, statements and further documentation from those involved to vet all claims
- When all documentation has been supplied, we review them and assess the who, what and when for reimbursement
- Lemon Aid reimburses each vetted individual directly who made a claim
Financial Limits
- All assistance is capped at no more than $6,000
- The current average is $3,000 per case
- Financial assistance given is based on what is available and is decided by Lemon Aid Committee members
- Funds are not guaranteed to clients and cases prior to approval by the Lemon Aid Committee
