[gazing at falling-snow crystal ball containing a mini-cemetery]
"Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said, 'Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die.'"

Yeah, it doesn't help. You can prepare kids all you want for death, but when they experience someone close to them dying when they are young nothing helps. It is just pain day in and day out without them understanding why. Tv shows don't help. Only time will help.

List fails withou... actually, that's a pretty good list.

FTFA:

16. The Last Unicorn (1982)


F*CK THAT MOVIE.

/These annoying kids would always request it at the movie viewing room inside the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade.

Good on them for the C&H dead bird

Mentioned at the end... Where the Red Fern Grows.

In 4th grade, our teacher used to read to us every day at lunchtime. Our school didn't have a cafeteria (weird, I know), so we would either bring a lunch, or go to the kitchen and get lunch and eat in the room. Horrible system.

Anyhoo, our teacher would read to use every day. The end of Where the Red Fern Grows was a blubbering mess of 10 year-olds and a teacher trying to keep her composure. Or course, some of the boys would try to be all tough and stuff, but for the most part we all lost it.

/CSB
//SSB

Bambi was the reason I passed on hunting.

"I am trying to save a horse"

"You are now crying"

"Trust me. I know all the things."

scottydoesntknow: "I am trying to save a horse"
[randomnessofluck.com image 564x365]
"You are now crying"




SO FULL OF WIN!!!

Bunnyhat: Bambi was the reason I passed on hunting.

That was the reason I took up hunting.

hogans: Where's Watership Down? That will not only teach kids about death - in abundance, I might add - but it will educate them on many forms of violence as well.

Don't forget suppression of rights, rape, brutality, ethnic cleansing, and oh so many other good things.

Watership Down scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

I think I started tearing up at least 10 times or more reading that article and remembering those stories. Some things don't get any easier the older you get.

The Iron Giant was totally sad, but probably should have been called "Robot Jesus" instead.

also this list fails without the episode of Harold and the Purple Crayon in which his fish dies.

obvs they went for the Mr. Rogers dead fish story instead and can't have too many dead fish stories

not like they needed exactly seventeen

really should have had Short Circuit in there, more particularly the scene wheres he stomps the grasshopper

Surprised that My Girl on the list wasn't on the list.

Les Comdien Masque: Surprised that My Girl on the list wasn't on the list.

/FTFM