Woman Lets Her Kids Watch This; Were They Too Young To Be In The Room?

This woman raised a some good points in her blog/article about when is it truly too early for kids to experience life beginning and ends? Funerals? Wakes? Deaths? Births?

Sasha Brown-Worsham has three children aged 8, 6 and 1.

Two weeks ago, Melvin, my family’s cat of 16 years, walked up from the basement looking like he had lost 10 pounds overnight. We rushed him to the vet where we learned he had acute liver failure, a condition he may have survived for only a few more months. He didn’t.

Two days later, we were back in the vet’s office. I had found Melvin, barely breathing in our basement, his front and back paws splayed out in front of him, so weak he couldn’t even walk into the cat carrier.  The vet suggested that we ended Melvin’s suffering right there.

And so we did.

With all four of us stroking his fur and crying, Melvin was given a sedative followed by a lethal injection that stopped his heart. It was sudden and painful and my older children were full of questions. So was I. Was I wrong to let them stay in the room? Are there some life events children are too young to experience?

What do you think? When is something like this too young?