Telling someone who's sound of mind from someone who's very "diminished" in a sense should really be the only problem here, yes.
We need to drive up the normalization of death, it happens every day and is to be expected of life, once people recognize death, in most cases, outruns life in comfort by miles, maybe they'll be particularly more accepting? I wonder, why don't we teach children within schools about how death will pass them everyday? I'm sick of the control within the world, we own us.
I think they probably think
anyone who is suicidal is mentally diminished though. That's the problem really.
I wonder if assisted suicide was legalised and more prevalent, whether attitudes would start to shift. Kind of a chicken and egg quandry. I think it almost needs to be here and legally approved. That way, people will have no choice but to adapt.
I suspect it will creep in but, only for a small demographic. People our governments would probably like to get rid of because they take more money than they put in. Just practically speaking- they must realise that smarty pants doctors extending our lifetimes are causing economic problems where we won't be able to keep all our elderly.
As for teaching children about death. I'm just not sure. I think children deserve to feel secure for as long as possible. As a child, there's not much we can practically do to prepare for death. I imagine it would terrify a child to be told it could so easily lose a family member and never see them again.
My Mum died when I was 3 actually. I got to know what death was pretty fast! Shortly afterwards, my Grandpa died and then, my Nana. I wasn't all that emotionally prepared for any of them! Even after I'd worked out what it was. I don't really think you can be. Maybe it's good to prepare a child if a death is looking imminent but, while everyone is healthy- I'm not sure it's great to worry them with the prospect.
Plus, no amount of words make it ok. I've heard most I imagine- They're in heaven now. You wouldn't wish them back with the pain they were in. You need to live and be strong/ happy for them now. Blah, blah, blah.
If it's more along the lines of- death is good. I'm just not sure really. Would we really buy it? It's hard not to need people in life then- it's hard to contemplate losing them. Maybe if we grew up in a totally different culture. I think we're almost trained to be selfish though!