Avoiding death is a privilege. There are children in Gaza surrounded by it. Kids across the globe who have buried parents and siblings. No one stopped to think about their anxiety, their sensitivity. Moreover, the cultural tendency to avoid death leaves these kids more alone and less supported, as evidenced in my vignette about my daughter\u2019s teacher. Children who avoid death become adults who have little practice with death, and who therefore avoid the bereaved, compounding their pain.