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by maxerickson
3359 days ago
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The other side of it is that you can't really prepare yourself for the sudden loss of a close relationship. Having a life insurance policy sized to the needs of children is probably more beneficial than having a frank conversation with them. |
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I wholeheartedly agree. I didn't mean to sound like you can prepare yourself so far as to avoid any mourning when someone close to you kicks the bucket. I do believe that once you've been through 1-3 such rounds of death, an average person will finally "understand" and take future deaths with a grain of salt.
As an aside, I personally find it frustrating when a family decides to hold a closed-casket funeral. Actually seeing death up front and personal is the only way to truly become acquainted. The number of times I've heard "think of the children"... which is really just adults being in denial about their own eventual death, and perpetuating that fear into their children. Death is a natural eventuality for all; the younger someone can figure that out, the better off they'll be.