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Has Disney Been Trying to Teach Us About Death All Along?
Maybe I’ve been misreading this company’s work.
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11 min readMar 11, 2021
For years, I’ve wondered why Disney often feature a dead parent in their animated films. As a child, I was traumatised watching Mufasa fall to his death and be trampled by a herd of wildebeest in The Lion King (1994). Both of my parents were alive…