Yah this reminds me I lost a grandparent when I was a little kid but not too young to deal with that sort of thing and I feel like the parent whose parent had passed kind of tried to shelter me from it even though I asked to travel with them out of state to the funeral, I wonder if they were having a hard time processing. Kids are able to deal with a lot more than they are given credit for but are infantilized by adults IME.