Handling Death Differently

Loss impacts everyone, and we each manage it a little differently. The children’s show Bluey (season 1, episode 8, “Copycat,” directed by Joe Brumm, aired April 12, 2019) has an episode that age-appropriately conveys how a parent and children of varying ages handle the concept of death when a bird “budgie” dies: “Just as Bluey and Bingo’s ages—6 and 4 in this episode—are indicative of the way they play from a developmental point of view, so too does it inform how they process the death of the...