I want to know something, what's the deal with westerners being so bad at telling kids a person died? even a religious person like her is bad at this, arguably the easiest ones to explain are religious people "oh sweetie we believe that there's a life and an afterlife and when we die our spirits leave our bodies here then we end up in the afterlife" just say that, but she won't do that because even to the standards of the worst christians his ass is likely looking up right now.

I don't mean to laugh, this is genuinely cruel, but it's also just really funny

"Daddy died because you wanted blueberries and didn't manage your finances well enough"

I'm sorry but this is sitcom levels of funny

back in my day, dads would go for cigarettes, smdh, what happened to men, good times, weak classic gits, whatever

I just saw something in the ABC.net.au about how blueberries contain a whole lot more pesticides than they ought to, because the limits were set at the amount of berries were eating in the 1990s, and people eat a lot more berries than they used to

food for thought, maybe look into it yourself, I don't eat a lot of berries (named berries, not the botanical definition)

This is awful, I normally like to make fun of these people, but it's hitting me right in the childhood with abusive parents right now. I hope that kid turns out ok and escapes all this without too much trauma. It seems like her mother is going to make literally everything about her dead husband, and use his death as a massive tool of control over her daughter.

why didn't this devout christian just say he's in heaven and theyll meet again? maybe Mrs. Kirk thinks he's in hell lololol

what a massive lie, Jesus would never go to hell even for business

I know nothing about Kirk's widow, but honestly I too would not be teaching great emotional lessons a week after my husband was assassinated. Not convinced they should be made into a spectacle, even if they're the one tweeting or whatever.

"Sweetie, look at this household discretionary budget for last quarter. Your blueberry requests are creating untenable expenditures for the firm. You need to cut back or we may have to consider a legal intervention to reduce access to spending. As my daughter you are a fiduciary and have an obligation to keep us profitable."

It's a great way to turn her against Jesus when he doesn't return from this work trip.

Christians blathering on about the importance and sanctity of the family doing their favorite thing: lying nonstop to their children about literally everything, including the most significant and defining moment of their childhoods. Anyone who thought this kid was better off now that pops is out of the picture hasn't met the mom.

I remember reading that his kids saw him get shot. Poor things. I hope they get therapy but this makes me think they won't

It’s lying but I think it’s really just the mom passing on her inability to deal with death. The “he’s with Jesus now” shit is what she’s telling herself to avoid facing any trauma. So it’s what she tells the daughter, and now the daughter will grow up emotionally incapable of dealing with death.

I saw a few TikToks about this sentence earlier and couldn't make any sense of it without context, jesus that's bad.

A very close friend of mine passed with a daughter who was two at the time. Her surviving parent never lied to her when she asked questions, of course she was too young to understand really. I don't think saying "he's with Jesus" has anything but negative effects.

She can only get away with it because society will cancel her daughter if the daughter says anything bad about it

Oh there’s no way she actually said that to her daughter, that’s some scripted shit they made up for the camera.