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[quote=Anonymous]I think the question is why you tell them about other kinds of deaths and not death by suicide. By not telling you are stigmatizing mental health - the secrecy is sending a message to your children that mental health issues are shameful. We don’t have death by suicide in my family, but we have mental health issues and we name them and talk about them. I think it can be a constructive conversation. We talk with our young kids about how my DH’s grandmother died of lung cancer and she was a lifelong smoker. It’s not a scary conversation- young kids are curious and not mean about many of these topics. As they gain the maturity to really understand, the conversation continues and they also understand that we are a resource to tal about things. [/quote]
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