It is so achingly, achingly sad for the children. You cannot replace a mother. There should be two people in your life who are always in your corner, ever on your side, come what may, no matter what.
Robert Frost
wrote that
‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in...
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’
Now they only have one.
I have been one of many in the 800-odd pages of these threads who have noted that there were really only four possibilities - fall, self-harm, absconded, abducted. The puzzling question to inexperts has been how in the first two cases a body could take so long to be found.
I don't suppose it will now be possible to know which of the first two possibilities happened. I would predict that the coroner's court will conclude misadventure or something similar. I say this because my brother took his own life 12 years ago. The coroner recorded the cause of death as 'self-harm', on the basis that there was no hard evidence that he intended this result - no note had been left, no history, etc. As a family we were obscurely grateful for that. There will be nothing from which to conclude suicide here.
Your heart breaks to think of it