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Doesn't the parent have some sort of responsibility, wherein a child's desire to be there might be an ignorant one or not understood well enough to justify "wanting" to? When i asked daddy for my own gun when I was 9, even that sob made the ingenious conclusion that he should probably not do that for me. In my head however, the desire was genuine and in no way ill-intended for anyone.. it also had no regard for the risks involved; in the death watch scenario, that risk would be unpredictable trauma that could surface aggressively years later in life. Permanently. A child most likely isn't considering his own exposure to traumatic experiences resulting in late-onset PTSD when he just wants to see how his brother is doing.