TRIGGER WARNING FOR SAD CHILD STUFF POSSIBLY
RTS - I knew of 3 children who had died when I was between 4-10. It seemed to bother my sibling more than it did me - he would not ride bikes (one kid got killed that way) and one got sick so my sibling kept checking himself for diseases and the third was in some other accident. We also knew of some people whose baby had died (something at birth -only lived a week or so).
In school, the nuns terrified me when they put 7 yr olds in charge of baptizing anyone you came across who was dying. (I was very afraid I would come across a dying person and forget the magic words and they would not go to heaven because of me)(I realize how silly that sounds - and yet I remember crying every night when I went to bed over the pressure of it and my parents becoming somewhat physically upset at me for not sleeping and for being silly).
Then in high school we had a couple of suicides, a batch died in a car accident together, and one killed themself accidentally climbing an electric pole. (I had a very large high school and only knew a few of them)
Last edited by stopdog; Jan 20, 2013 at 07:28 PM.
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