I meant: Face painting? Might be a good idea to ask the deceased's relatives if it's OK.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Face painting? Might be a good idea to ask the deceased relatives if it's OK. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : This kinda has to be posted here, because it's something I haven't seen anywhere else, and I find it remarkably refreshing, and kinda spiritual. You know how in America no one really ever talks much about death, and they try especially to hide it from children? Well, here in Leiden the local Crematorium is sponsoring a Kinderdag -- a Children's Day. From a Google Chrome translation of their web page at http://www.dela.nl/evenementen http://www.dela.nl/evenementen: Sunday, April 6 Nursery from 11:00 to 16:00 Look around a crematorium? That's what you do when someone is dead? That's true, but not on our special Children's Day. During a discovery in a fun way to learn what happens in a crematorium. But also: face painting, balloon kites, listening to stories, crafts, delicious sweets and much more. I find it kinda refreshing. We may even take Maya. She's 5, and finally beginning to grok the mysteries of death, since Pippin the dog went away some time ago, and he doesn't seem to be coming back. I can't help but believe that a no-nonsense approach to the subject might just help to develop a healthier approach to the inevitability of death than the American approach of Denial.