My daughter's school friend lost his long battle with cancer yesterday. He was 8. He had fought for almost 2 years and now he has gone.
He visited the school a couple of times last month and the children all took part in a run to raise money for CLIC.
My daughter is devastated because she thought he was on the mend and at 7 she is still confused by death.
Does anyone have any advice on dealing with this. It has upset me a great deal too because I feel so sad for his family, it is such a tragedy to lose one so young and it makes me treasure every moment with my children. I'm not sure how best to deal with it with DD, at the moment she knows that any time she wants to talk then I'm there for her and we've had a lot of cuddles and quiet time together. She said she wants to do something to remember him, so maybe there will be some kind of remembrance assembly for him when school starts up again. I had also thought about fundraising for CLIC - organising something for all the children in their year to participate in if they wanted to, along the lines of a Mile for Maud maybe.
Does anyone have any experience of this, I want to make sure I do the right thing in helping DD deal with it well, it's just so so sad.
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hockeypuck · 03/08/2010 08:46
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