dd1 was taken to a cemetery by the school today, and saw a dead person

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I probably wouldnt mind if it was one of my sons, but dd has recently been through a phase of being v scared of death/dead people. She was fairly upset.

why do the school think its ok to take the children out of the blue? I am pretty cross, but there is no point complaining, it is a bavarian school so the only answer they know is "we know best what is good for your child"

omg how old is she!!

sorry why did they go to a cemetary?

Saw a dead person?

How old is she, and how is she feeling now?

How did they manage to see a dead person? Was there no warning about this trip and what they would see? How old is DD?

Seems a very odd school trip.

How old is she?

How did she see a dead person?

are there any sensible conversations on here at all tonight?

what !?

why did they go to a cemetary and what the hell are they doing shwing her adead person without your consent!!

how old is she?

do you mean she saw a coffin? or a corpse? How can you see a corpse in a cemetary surely they are all in coffins?

er, how? what? where? when?

Surely dead people aren't just lying around the cemetry???? (sorry no pun intended)

How can you see a dead person in the cemetry tehy are buried?!

She is 10. There was no warning. There was a funeral on, and the coffin was opened, apparently.

What religion in this?

I hope they didn't go to McDonald's on the way home

Blimey, beats going to MacDonalds twice in one trip (yesterdays horror trip)
Hope she's OK.

sorry, I dont get some of these comments. do you think I am making this up?

Ah, here it is:
Chat : SURREAL THREAD

I thought originally that she "saw a dead person" in a sixth sense sort of way.

an open coffin IN a graveyard

don't be daft

I wouldn't be happy about all this to be honest.

is she ok?

why did they go there and I thought schools HAD to tell parents about trips out of school

why was coffin opened? dont they nail it shut? sorry but am lol at this. lol

We live next to a cemetary, and DS used to comment on the "fat ones in there" where there was a new grave with the soil heaped up!!

sorry posts xed.
it was the evangelical religion class.

interesting that others apparently find this disturbing as well, I vented to one German person and was more or less told that death is natural and to get over it.

I think it isnt helpful for dd to see the body of someone that she has never met. It makes the death at once less meaningful and more scary.