I want to know something, what's the deal with westerners being so bad at telling kids a person died? even a religious person like her is bad at this, arguably the easiest ones to explain are religious people "oh sweetie we believe that there's a life and an afterlife and when we die our spirits leave our bodies here then we end up in the afterlife" just say that, but she won't do that because even to the standards of the worst christians his ass is likely looking up right now.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

westerners' avoid thinking about death as a general rule and far too many have kids as some kind of performance or as a method to fill the hope left by their own unrealized dreams and aspirations.

basically, they aren't having kids to build a future so much as having kids to reconcile their past. and death is the ultimate future, so they completely biff it when the kid has questions.