tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4618677099217792305.post8894867929815234507..comments2009-12-15T11:06:32.838-08:00Comments on The Schu-In: The Baby GardenC.R. Schudallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16672619112118037554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4618677099217792305.post-35006571164220522012009-09-01T22:21:04.682-07:002009-09-01T22:21:04.682-07:00The death of a child is always a traumatic experie...The death of a child is always a traumatic experience, even when that child has yet to be born. Many times, it happens so early and suddenly, there isn't really anything to bury. I can certainly understand the want to bury the child, and to have the funeral. After all, believing that life begins at conception, which we do as Catholics, we must reason that the child was alive, and indeed, had a soul. The child was probably already a part of their growing family, and to have him or her taken from life before he or she could experience it beyond the womb, that would have hurt the family greatly. The funeral was very much for the child, but also for the grieving family. It can often help ease the grief in time, instead of letting it bubble up inside and affect their health physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.<br /><br />To be honest, I think a funeral mass should be said for every child, and I'm quite surprised that it isn't, given our beliefs on when life begins. It could help ease the grief of many families, not to mention continue to drive home what you found on the day of your first funeral, that it wasn't a joke, and that a child died. A child, you know? It's not just some lump of tissue that many find too inconvenient to allow life. The loss of a child is a great loss to all of us, and good people ~should~ stand up and mourn.Kieran Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09632713834457993470noreply@blogger.com