brave kids
I've always though it was a load of bollocks to say that terminal kids are brave. Do they really have the same sense of mortality as adults? I think they adapt and get used to the idea much more easily. Choosing funeral songs becomes more like choosing a new dress for a party. If they're traumatized at all, I expect it would be from the reactions of the adults around them.

I was 35 before I started to give mortality any thought. Knowing I was about to die would kill me. But as a kid, would have thought it was pretty cool (all my friends missing me etc.)
(frankspencer, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 13:19, Reply)