[House] Explaining cryo.

[J Davis]

Makes sense to me. Same goes for me and cryo (though obviously the
emotional effects wouldn't be the same).


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> Warning: emotional shit.
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> RJ brought up today that some delicate shit comes up if I die and
> you have to explain cryo to the girls, if they are very young.
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> My preference: don't.  At least, don't explain it until they're old
> enough that you would try to explain, say, what an interest rate is
> on a loan, or what "honor" means, or something.  Explain death as
> usual, and if you want also explain that instead of being buried I
> got frozen.
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> My reasons are twofold:
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> It seems to me that a possible outcome of explaining cryo to a very
> young child is:
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> 1.  The child thinks I'm actually coming back in a near-term,
> concrete, tangible sort of way.  That strikes me as setting up the
> child for a disappointment of absolutely soul-shattering magnitude.
> If you don't explain cryo and I come back, it's a happy surprise.
> If you do explain it and what the child hears is "daddy's not dead"
> and I don't come back, it's an *extremely* unhappy surprise.
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> 2.  The child tries to explain it to their peers.  Especially in the
> form of emotionally charged fights about how "daddy's not dead".
> The catastrophic effects on their peer relationships would be vast.
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> So.  Let's just not.  Explain it when they're older.
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> -Robin
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