Hardly anyone can being, so to speak, of sound mind and memory comfortable thinking about death. In any case, these thoughts are painted dark shades, though each in different ways. Equally challenging is to explain to the child what is death, and even more to explain in this case the death of someone close. Adult man, sparing the child's mind begins to invent ways to describe death not as scary as it seems. The result is stories like that that person or pet flew away on a cloud, and there is good, warm and dry. But don't distort whether such an approach the reality of death?
all these thoughts came to me when I read the materials on the suicide-studying, including on child suicide. When a child is engaging in a suicide attempt does not realize the reality of the results of such actions, he has no real understanding of death. The child presented the picture as an all-around cry, feel sorry, confess their love and say some he is good, and the child is watching all this from the outside, that is, continues to live after death. But how to form a real representation if death he only heard about the “cloud”, “angels”, “sunlight”?
But there is this idea in an adult? Can a person safely or at least without fear, to think that life has an end and not live in illusions it continue “outside”, and the realization that not continue? Childhood stories that people dying is on a cloud, the adult grow in faith in God, in the afterlife. But does not detract from whether the denial of death the value of life? This illusion that life is infinite completely devalues life itself. We almost always manage days of his life as the rich coppers, not counting them.
And maybe the guts to tell the other child and myself that will continue, and we have to live today, without waiting for better days and better life. What if you try without “illusions continue”, and think that life has an end. The end without the dot and the prospects of the next Chapter, and just the end point. Not to hope to leave this world to be happy in another; to suffer, and to endure anything in this life, waiting for another happy and honored life in Paradise. Perhaps, then, life will be perceived as a more valuable resource?
