[WillowTheWhisp]

I guess maybe I have a different attitude to death since I had to tell my daughters about their father's death when they were only 10 and 7. I've never hidden death from either of them - they have "paid their last respects" to deceased relatives and been grateful for the opportunity to have done so. Death doesn't worry them, neither do they fear it. There's an interesting article in today's Daily Mail about how we hide death in the "civilised" world and it becomes such a taboo and frightening subject whereas other cultures are far more accepting and open about it.