Since my son's car accident I have taken the time to consider the mortality of my teens.

Just last weekend we filled the house with pictures of my oldest son through the years for his guests to see at his graduation party.

I had an eerie feeling this week when I looked at some of those darling pictures of him growing up thinking we could have been placing them around the funeral home. Ewww, writing this is weird, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought it!

My question is...do teens think about their mortality? My conversation with my son about this was a disaster. I seem to want him to communicate verbally that he has pondered all this, converse with me about it, get it all out, go over and over all the *what ifs* and *thank Gods*...and all he could say was something like..."I'm not stupid. How can you possibly think I could live through this and not think about it?"

Geez, I'm left wondering if it is a guy/girl thing, or a mother/son thing.