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May. 17th, 2011 03:24 pmThe visitation starts in about an hour. It's not going to be the two-hour ordeal I pictured. It's going to be a three-hour ordeal. The family gets a private hour before visitors are admitted.
We're giving Alex the opportunity to see the body if she chooses, and she wants to. I took her aside to ask her if she had any questions about what it would be like. She looked at me blankly.
"Like, are you wondering what Poppy's body will look like?"
She hadn't been, but now she was. The questions tumbled out. "Will there still be his flesh, or will he be a skeleton? Will he have clothes on?"
She almost seemed a little disappointed to hear that Poppy would look like he was just sleeping. She's so far from understanding what death is that she isn't even really grappling with it yet. But it won't be something that can escape her much longer.
Okay. Time to go get us all dressed.
We're giving Alex the opportunity to see the body if she chooses, and she wants to. I took her aside to ask her if she had any questions about what it would be like. She looked at me blankly.
"Like, are you wondering what Poppy's body will look like?"
She hadn't been, but now she was. The questions tumbled out. "Will there still be his flesh, or will he be a skeleton? Will he have clothes on?"
She almost seemed a little disappointed to hear that Poppy would look like he was just sleeping. She's so far from understanding what death is that she isn't even really grappling with it yet. But it won't be something that can escape her much longer.
Okay. Time to go get us all dressed.
