LIVE BY DESIGN | Have you ever talked with children about dying?

Live by Design is a weekly News24 column by Dr Helena Dolny and Mapi Mhlangu on mortality and the conversations around it.

When I was a child, people talked about someone who died in a matter-of-fact kind of way - especially if the recently deceased was elderly. 

"Oh well, she had her three score years and 10," they would say. People in the neighbourhood mostly died at home, and their bodies were prepared for burial at home.