It’s lying but I think it’s really just the mom passing on her inability to deal with death. The “he’s with Jesus now” shit is what she’s telling herself to avoid facing any trauma. So it’s what she tells the daughter, and now the daughter will grow up emotionally incapable of dealing with death.
Yah this reminds me I lost a grandparent when I was a little kid but not too young to deal with that sort of thing and I feel like the parent whose parent had passed kind of tried to shelter me from it even though I asked to travel with them out of state to the funeral, I wonder if they were having a hard time processing. Kids are able to deal with a lot more than they are given credit for but are infantilized by adults IME.
It’s lying but I think it’s really just the mom passing on her inability to deal with death. The “he’s with Jesus now” shit is what she’s telling herself to avoid facing any trauma. So it’s what she tells the daughter, and now the daughter will grow up emotionally incapable of dealing with death.
Yah this reminds me I lost a grandparent when I was a little kid but not too young to deal with that sort of thing and I feel like the parent whose parent had passed kind of tried to shelter me from it even though I asked to travel with them out of state to the funeral, I wonder if they were having a hard time processing. Kids are able to deal with a lot more than they are given credit for but are infantilized by adults IME.
Would people really do that, just go and use religion as a massive cope around their inability to deal with mortality?
That’s what grandparents and pets are for