How to help a child through dealing with death?
Friendships when you’re young are very unique. You share things with your friends that you don’t share with your family members. An intimacy develops over time and they have an “understanding” with their friends. Friends share their hopes and dreams and they make plans together and being schoolmates, she probably spent more time with her than her own family members. There are 3 words that probably best describe her response…anger, disbelief and shock. When young people die unexpectedly and because of this, there are no goodbyes and no second chances. It’s very normal that she would feel a great sense of guilt. This is likely the first tragedy she has had to face….her first glance at “the real world”. She’s unable to make sense of this She probably had “unfinished business” with her friend, and possibly has things she wished she could have said to her. Grief is a very personal and private thing and everyone works through it in their own way and in their own time. I say “works” throu
