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We can’t protect children from death. They encounter it all the time – whether it’s a mouse brought in by the cat or a grandparent dying. At an early age, they can form their own beliefs around it.

If we leave children alone with fears and misunderstandings regarding death, they can grow and grow. Children are more open to conversations about death than adults often realise. We need to talk to children about dying so that the myths don’t take over, and so that they don’t feel isolated or guilty about what they think.

It’s much better to have helped children have an understanding of death, funerals, burial and cremation before being confronted with these things when someone close to them dies.

I am a clinical pharmacist working with the CYP alliance with an aim to improve the lives of children in South Yorkshire who have asthma so that they can enjoy all the things their peers without asthma do. By getting asthma control right at young age we can also prevent future risk too.