When did you first learn death was a thing?

When my paternal grandfather passed away, when I was five. I remember asking my father why he was sad. He told me his father had gone to heaven. 😞

I don't remember but I freaked about it quite a lot when I was a kid. My paternal grandmother died shortly after I was born so as I was growing up I was being reminded of the fact that someone that normally should have been there wasn't. So I got the concept of absence quite early. Anxiety from understanding that anyone close to me could die any given day came a little bit later. Maybe when I was 7 or 8.

When my uncle died around when I was 7 or 8 ..

6 when pets died off

I think i really grasped it when i was 7 and i was like oh i dont have to do homework bc im going to die. That pretty much shaped my existence. Lol

I don't remember exactly, but know I was no older than 5.

8 years old when a cat of ours died. I remember holding him and having an understanding he was not going to wake up. 😞

like fully experiencing it, probably when my first pet died. i think i was 8 or so

Quite young. I'm Australian. Dad's safety talk was basically, if you get bit you die.

when I was very ill last winter

i really learned about it around 27

When my Uncle Max died when I was five years old. I still miss him. Recently, I found out he'd committed suicide, like a lot of people in my maternal family.

8 years old

Around 4 or 5 years old, when I watched Bambi and his mother was killed. That introduced me to the concept. Then when I was 5, my elderly neighbor died and it became something "real".

i was watching while my grandfather changed my fish's water trying to do a nice thing, & the poor goldfish was shocked by the changing water temp. goodbye goldie.

I had this crazy random thought that i was gonna die after 11 or 12 and had a little freakout

10 years old when i lost my nan

The death of my pet kitten when I was 11. It absolutely sucked, because it was an accidental death. I fully believe that I have both death as well as abandonment issues because of it.

Before that, when singer/songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash(and I knew exactly who he was), I was only 5 and didn't totally grasp it. The "not being around" part was kinda there, but it was confusing, because ABC Records kept issuing singles. I eventually got it.

12 years old

I was Catholic...i had the death thing drilled into me from year dot. 🤷‍♀️