Reminds me of a story my Rabbi once told me. He was attending a funeral for a young child. The child’s mother had managed to keep it together most of the way through until the Minister said the child was in a better place. The mother completely lost it and started shrieking “A better place than with me? A better place than with me?”. He told me it was one of the most disturbing experiences of his career.
That mother only gets a bit of slack. Maybe her grief made her forget
That is unless she thinks either there is no God or she is God
“The mother completely lost it and started shrieking “A better place than with me?”
My mother was a full blown narcissist and this is exactly the kind of thing she did. The child was in a MUCH better place.
I should have added that this woman did not “loose it” it was all carefully rehearsed to shift the attention to herself.
Only a bereaved parent could understand. I lost my daughter and only child. I would have done the same thing if our minister had said that. Some things you don’t ever say to a parent who has lost a child — at any age; for any reason.