Personal Reflection on Death and Parental Guidance

What my dad taught me about the inevitability of death | Amanda Sloat

Most fathers would shield their children from death. Mine, a psychologist, did the opposite My dad and I kept a running list of ways we didn’t want to die. Being buried alive was always No 1. Whenever we learned about unusual deaths – accidents involving farm machinery, medieval torture, mobsters encasing victims’ feet in cement before throwing them in the ocean – we added them to our shared catalogue. Most fathers would shield their children from such morbid fascinations. Mine, a psychologis...

By Amanda Sloat