Andrea Dunlop
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That's our worst nightmare, right?
I think there's a real reluctance on people watching this situations to judge, right?
To say, that seems weird.
It seems weird that you're talking about your son in the past tense when he's still alive.
It seems weird that three days after his death, you're posting about what you should do about the funeral plants.
It seems weird that you seem so excited about all of this.
All of that stuff that is striking people on a very gut level as wrong and is wrong.
People have a real reluctance to call that out because you just think this person's child is dying.
Who knows how I would behave?
I would just urge people, I think so much of this is about trusting your instincts.
Something feels really off.
Don't ignore it.
And I know that puts people in a really uncomfortable position.
But when you're talking about life and death of a child, it's worth being uncomfortable.
And in Lisa's case, because she was posting so much on social media and on her blog, she was posting a lot on Facebook.
She had these various groups that she was messaging contemporaneously while her son was on hospice.
There was a lot of just like really strange behavior.
And I think I also want to flag for people, because this has come up in a bunch of cases.
This was true of our season five cases and true of the Beata Kowalski case, which was featured in the Take Care of Maya Netflix film.
When a parent is saying their child has an illness that is not fatal.