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Originally Posted by srmom
My brother died by getting into a car with a kid who had been drinking. He was 13 years old. It completely devastated my family! I have told my kids about the experience with the idea that they should know that bad things do happen when you least expect them to and that noone is immune. I hope that they have listened to me because it would kill me if anything happened to them.
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There's a BIG difference between telling kids about someone they never knew (I'm assuming, unless you were really really really older than your brother) 20+ years after the fact, and shoving messages down their throats when they're devastated at the loss of a friend.
MC, if my child started a dialogue with me about drunk driving as a result of a friend's death in an accident or something - that would be fine. But if they wanted to NEVER discuss it (it being their friend's death) with me, that would be fine too. We can talk about drunk driving some other time. Their friend DIED. That's hard enough for them to deal with no matter how it happens. I don't understand why people think it's OK to use a teenager's or young adult's death by misadventure to "teach a lesson" to his peers. One of the women here was killed in a car accident several years ago. We certainly didn't have a company wide showing of a movie about why we should use our seatbelts. No one would have sat through something so insensitive.