Explaining death to children.

[Nine]

I agree, but you're really just bitching, here. How would YOU explain the death of a parent to a very young child? It's all very well to say that the 'gone to live with the angels' answer is comforting, patronizing, damaging nonsense (and I agree that that it is), but what's your alternative?

Boru

Buy a goldfish, wait for it to go belly up, then hold a funeral in the garden. It's not really surprising that people suck at dealing with death when our tactic is to hide the dead away from sight. I think the best way of going about it is for them to see dead things and understand that the physical person isn't gone, just their consciousness.