Sunday, November 21, 2010

A Child's View Of Death

Below, I'm I posted a video of "Lucky's Funeral",the video shows how a child learns a proper way of death. Children usual experience death by the death of an animal. This video shows a little girl saying goodbye to her pet fish.


The father video tapes and the little girl talks about her dead fish. Children that learn how to deal with death at an early age find it easier to deal with death as an adult. The child talks about how the fish was a good fish while it was alive. She keeps mentioning the word "dead". 


I think she knows what death is. Most children her age believe that the animal is not truly dead. They believe that the animal will return when they wake up the next day. She said, that she will always have the fish forever because she has a picture of it.


I like how the family makes a joke out of it. I think this makes it easier for the child. The funeral process for the fish was more of a celebration then a mourning process. Tell me what you think?



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