The final solution

Thinking about death and loss in advance of it happening is an early intervention approach.  Where is the evidence that this benefits children ? There is none, but that matters little to enthusiasts.

"Children see the world very differently to adults; their imaginations are still unprejudiced. Why not tap into this through education? "

"‘To die will be an awfully big adventure.’ – J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan "

"Dying Matters, together with the National Council for Palliative Care, believes all secondary school pupils in England should be taught about issues relating to death and dying as part of the national curriculum."

http://www.edubuzz.org/observe/2012/05/14/dying-matters-awareness-week-14-20-may-2012/

Actually lessons in death, dying and bereavement are going on in some primary schools throughout the UK, with distressing results for young children.

In 2009, the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) set up the Dying Matters Coalition to promote public awareness of dying, death and bereavement which is now going into schools.

The National Council for Palliative Care - care of the dying - has a worrying link to the scandalous Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) because it used to promote the practice. The LCP euthanased thousands of vulnerable people in NHS hospitals.

As campaigners will tell you:

"At its demise, the LCP was on version 12. The critics were used to a familiar pattern by now. Every time the papers caught on to concerns that the LCP was being used to hasten death in unnecessary and inhumane ways, a new version would be released, and for a while criticism would die down under the banner: "

"Everything’s OK now, there’s a new version, and it’s fixed everything."

"And then the criticism would come back..."
"So when it was announced on the 13th of July, 2013 that the LCP would be phased out over the following six to twelve month, it marked a small victory, but not an overwhelmingly optimistic one."

"(It`s) hard to be optimistic without real proof things were going to change, not after 12 versions of the same nightmare."

"These are the key issues: "

"The culture of the NHS needed to be changed. It could no longer be normal to mistakenly put people who are not dying, or who (have) time left, on a pathway that would see them (to) a certain death within days. It could no longer be normal to not seek informed consent before making life or death decisions on behalf of a patient."

"The accountability needed to change. No one at this time has ever been arrested for misuse of the LCP. The law protects the doctors and nurses, not the patients."

"And finally the linchpin: food and water should never be withdrawn completely from patients. Food and water should be given with the comfort of the patient in mind, and should never be used to end life. It is a painful and inhumane death."

http://noliverpoolcarepathway.com/is-it-over/

The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has welcomed the latest NICE guidelines on end of life care. These guidelines are reminiscent of the LCP and the practice has been extended into homes and care homes.

"But Professor Pullicino claims the new proposals mimic many of the LCP`s key problems, including how hospital staff decide who is actually dying...."

"A professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Kent, Professor Pullicino had a patient survive 14 months after being taken off the LCP. He recommends a return to `ordinary compassionate care`. "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183396/New-end-life-care-rules-worse-death-pathway.html

I would not want the NCPC, its partner organisation Dying Matters and their cult of death to tap into any child`s imagination.