I don't know what your experiences are, but I've found that even more is a shrill difference between a little kid full of life and unaware of death and a dying person being present at the same time, and both loved equally.
It's a pity we didn't accept to live the Indian way, maybe we won't only have clean water but also a prayer of death, too (a prayer one prays when one is about to die and then passes away peacfully).