What to tell children if you have a loved one in ICU

[Sepsur]

This booklet may help you to answer this quandary

icusteps.org/information/fo...

[FamilyHistorian]

In my case it was not so much what to tell the children but the grandchildren 12 of them ages from 7 to 28. I think you have to be honest. Children are touched by death more than we realise. In one of my grandchildren’s case they already lost one grandparent and a little friend of his had recently lost her grandfather he was “concerned”

This does remind me of a conversation I had with one of the grandchildren when I think they were +- 7. I was taking him somewhere when I little voice chirped up from the back of the car asking about death. We had an intelligent conversation about the fact that everyone will die eventually some sooner than later and we talked about deliberate and accidental acts. He was quite happy.

Fortunately he didn’t ask what happened after death. As an atheist I would have struggled with that

[Anuur44]

Thanks for sharing this. Will share with my mums grandchildren.