Students Build Coffin for Teacher
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To summarize for people who don't feel like clicking on the link, an elementary school-teacher in Holland was about to die of cancer, and another teacher in her school (with her approval) had the kids build a coffin for her.
At first I thought they were a bunch of fucking freaks, but then I had a good think about it. Maybe we need to start teaching our kids that death is a normal part of life. I mean, so many people are controlled by their fear of death, they go fucking insane, and start popping twenty vitamins a day and shit. And when a loved one dies, most people can't handle it. I know my aunt's death, at the age of five, sort of destroyed my entire family. It's been a good forty years now and we're still all living with it. That's not right.
Understanding that death is natural and inevitable is going to, maybe, help us enjoy life while we're here.
But I think the real question is: Is that coffin really going to be useful? There's no way they're going to be able to fit a grown adult in there.
