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We use terms like "passed away" because we can't say
dead or died. It's just too hard at times. We can't look at such finality without a clutch of fear and irretrievable loss. I'm sure someone has found a way to help children and even grownups understand and accept and go on. Wish I had the ability to say just the right thing.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 17, 2012 at 3:37 AM
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These are not hard questions that our children not only want to have answered, but need to have answered if this is ever to end. Something our school system stopped doing years ago, but if you remember the shooting in the Amish kindergarten a few years ago...Those questions were answered, and they were answered with forgiveness as the shooters family was taken prepared meals, hugged with love and the shooter forgiven and the children knew why, and they knew were their murdered friends were as well and they were happy for them. The sad thing is that most Americans simply cannot understand what was fundamental to those people.
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UtahJay
on December 17, 2012 at 12:28 AM
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BC-A
on December 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM
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