Death in the family-WWYD?
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Death in the family-WWYD?
| Mon, 07-12-2010 - 11:28am |
My Great Uncle passed away yesterday. I'm trying to decide what to do with the kids (Mara, really). Mara never really knew him; he had dementia pretty bad and so we never encouraged her to speak with him other than a "hello" because it confused him more.
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Logan has asked me some really tough questions about death after he had a conversation with his dad about HIS dad passing away. Things like "Is my dad going to die?" "are you going to die?" "am I going to die?"
I was just honest and told him that everyone dies at some point - but that its *usually* when they are very old or very sick. But that even if his dad dies, he will ALWAYS be his dad (he kept saying, if my dad dies, I won't have a dad anymore)... no matter what. We have the conversations periodically because he brings it up sometimes... its nice that he's ok talking about it. We've also addressed that the next person he knows that will probably die will be his great nana (my 85 year old grandmother). I told him I didn't know when, but that she was the oldest person we knew... LOL hopefully he'll be slightly prepared for it thanks to the conversations.
Mara has asked the same questions...they are tough. Today actually went pretty well though. We did take her to the front of the room to see the body (she could see him from the pews anyway)