<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 02.08.2012, at 20:23, Peter Korsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">So yes, do visit it if you have the chance, and if you think it's a good idea to take your children there.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I think (but that may just be me) that children should be involved in all sorts of cemetery-visits, funerals etc. </div><div><br></div><div>When I was 8 my great-grandmother died (I really liked her) and my mother didn't take us to the funeral, thinking that it was too much for us. I never had the chance for a farewell, that bothered me even then.</div><div><br></div><div>Also I think it's very heartening when little children are present at funerals, especially grandchildren. Just goes to show how things go on, even after death.</div><div><br></div><div>But these days I also came to think that we all, in our society, try to push death and the thoughts about it as far away from us as we can, and that is a very unhealthy thing. One day we all die and so will our loved ones, so we should be prepared to deal with it. Death is a part of life, so we should learn (and teach) to accept it as such. That's hard enough, I guess, but trying to ignore it just won't work either...</div><div><br></div><div>But that's just my opinion. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>