I really found Bloom's section regarding Children and Death quite enlightening. I never really thought about why children view death differently than adults. It brought to mind an incident a couple years ago regarding my younger nephew and my parent's cat. Their cat was the last one they had and he finally died a couple years ago and my parent's thought they should let my nephews no about the cat's passing. I am not sure what exactly they said, but somewhere in the conversation they mentioned the cat was buried in the back yard. My younger nephew immediately went upstairs grabbed his truck, headed downstairs and proceeded to head for the back door. When asked what he was doing he said, "I am going to dig up the cat." He just thought the cat was sleeping and didn't understand that the cat was not sleeping.
Bloom's section regarding death put into perspective why my nephew would have thought the cat was just taking a nap. Really makes one think what the "right" way and "wrong" way to tell children that somebody died.
