Seeing people squish at a young age - and I am not being flippant here - helped reduce my teen "I'm immortal! I'm unstoppable!" phase.

I saw very quickly that what separates a live person from a very deceased flat person was a moment of sillyness/forgetfullness/stupidity. "I didn't SUSPECT that is even possible to happen to a person!" - "We're....fragile?!" - "Ah, bike helmet... I think they're REALLY GOOD idea...."

PSA's just aren't listened to by teenagers. But something that's real - that happened, with the security camera timestamp in the corner... kids learn safety.

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Nursie 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> helped reduce my teen "I'm immortal! I'm unstoppable!" phase.

I mean, is that good?

Isn’t another way of looking at that to say that it poisoned an innocent time and left you aware and afraid of death when you might otherwise have been enjoying the end of your childhood without that burden?

In general parents might want their kids to be a little more mindful, but not grow up too soon.

	▲	imtringued 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention that this could create perpetually morbidly afraid individuals. Yeah now they know they might die, but they also know they will die. Cool. What now? You might have a kid thinking that they are going to die tomorrow, for the next 70 years.