Quote Originally Posted by RAFF View Post
That’s awful. I’m very sorry for your loss.

My opinion is you should tell her the truth. She’s old enough and as you say, she’ll figure it out herself, and the same ‘burden’ will be on her shoulders. But she’ll be angry that she was lied to in top of it.

Very difficult situation. My half brother killed himself in 2015 and left a young son behind.


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Kids are quite resilient, my mum's sister died in her late 20's of cervical cancer and her parents and sisters decided not to take her young daughters (aged 6 and 8) to the funeral for fear it would be too upsetting for them.

20 Years later there is a resentment that they never got to grieve properly for their mum.

Also, neighbours / schoolfriends will talk and at some point the children will hear about what happened from a third party at a time you don't control. My view would be tell them the truth - finding out you have been lied to about something like this will merely heap more hurt on the kids when they need honesty