Up: [[Death]] Related: [[Rituals]] Created: 2022-06-08 Is it common for children to be afraid of death before they’ve had any experience of bereavement over an elderly relative or a pet? I don’t know but I do know that I was afraid of death from probably age seven. I made my parents go through two nightly [[Rituals]]. One was to tuck me in really tight so that if someone came into the house with murder on their mind, they wouldn’t see me. The other was to make sure that all knives were put away in drawers, for the same reason. A butcher block full of knives seemed an invitation to murder to me then. And now!