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difficult child extremely upset about thoughts of death/dying
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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 551631" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>I think being frightened of things we cannot control is pretty normal. And a lot of religious ideas are not very logical when you think about it....so it might be that here is this problem (ie. death) and the solution that has been presented makes no sense at all. That would definitely be upsetting.</p><p></p><p>But I also think that for sensitive people, sometimes the stories themselves become an emotional problem because we (yes, I am including myself in the sensitive people category) don't know what to do with it. For example, I watched a History Channel special about the neanderthals - and they explained that they could determine how an individual had died from the evdience left in the bones. Then they went on to explain that the skeleton of a neanderthal child contained evidence of a severe infection - the child would have suffered a slow and painful death.</p><p></p><p>Well, that was just so darn SAD! But what the heck do I do with those feelings - Know what I mean? ? The child died many thousands of years ago. I never met him. I wasn't there. I could not have saved him. But still - here I am thinking about how sad it was that he must have suffered so at the end of his short life.</p><p></p><p>I think those kinds of stories can cause an emotional response that is difficult to put into an appropriate category.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 551631, member: 6546"] I think being frightened of things we cannot control is pretty normal. And a lot of religious ideas are not very logical when you think about it....so it might be that here is this problem (ie. death) and the solution that has been presented makes no sense at all. That would definitely be upsetting. But I also think that for sensitive people, sometimes the stories themselves become an emotional problem because we (yes, I am including myself in the sensitive people category) don't know what to do with it. For example, I watched a History Channel special about the neanderthals - and they explained that they could determine how an individual had died from the evdience left in the bones. Then they went on to explain that the skeleton of a neanderthal child contained evidence of a severe infection - the child would have suffered a slow and painful death. Well, that was just so darn SAD! But what the heck do I do with those feelings - Know what I mean? ? The child died many thousands of years ago. I never met him. I wasn't there. I could not have saved him. But still - here I am thinking about how sad it was that he must have suffered so at the end of his short life. I think those kinds of stories can cause an emotional response that is difficult to put into an appropriate category. [/QUOTE]
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