![]() ![]() The newest one, Death is Stupid, approaches grieving children with an honesty that is both refreshing and challenging-radical empathy. Moments like these are the inspiration behind a series of books: “Ordinary, Terrible Things.” Writer and artist Anastasia Higginbotham has created beautiful books that offer straight talk and clear images to explain the truth. These were nice people, but entirely unhelpful. Also, I could understand that he wasn’t going to ask for pancakes-first because no one who wakes up in a hospital with a tube in his nose is going to ask for breakfast and second because my father ate eggs. At the age of seven, I knew this was ridiculous because all of our relatives had come to the hospital and everyone was stone faced. ![]() When my father was in a coma, people kept telling me that he would wake up and ask for pancakes. Adults feed into this perception by saying things like, “Grandma is in a better place now,” “God doesn’t do anything without a reason.” “This sad feeling will pass.” They aren’t making it easier for the children, they are making it easier for themselves. They see adults behave childishly, irrationally, and inappropriately. ![]() Children of tragedy experience a moment where they are forced to grow up and see that adults are full of it most of the time. ![]() Grieving children and children of divorce learn way too early that adults are emotional children. By Katherine Thome 0 Radical Empathy: DEATH IS STUPID, an Interview with Anastasia Higginbotham ![]()
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