A striking paragraph

It's from a NYT Magazine article about Air France Flight 447.

She turned her head to watch the kids, then she said: "Children are amazing, you know? A psychologist told us after the accident that children do not have a sense of death until they are 6 or 7. And I radically contest this. When it happened, Jose was 4 years old. And of course, it’s a conversation I will never forget. I told him, 'Listen, there was an accident with Daddy’s plane, and he’s not coming home.' And he started crying as I never saw him cry before. He was saying, 'But there are so many things I wanted to make for him.' "