this is not a dream about death. Dreams are symbolic, yes it is a death of a certain kind, but symbols must be interpreted.
Death from a life as you once knew it. I think the cloud that is over your child comes from you, the whole post partum depression thing. That is the result of the recent marriage type depression women get, they played the game, they made themselves lovable, they fought in the workplace to rise in class, they got even better than the best man, and then there is a stillness after you settle down in this perfect nest. It is the same with children, the depression that clouds a normally happy situation is that reality is just that, it is reality, time moves slow, and it is another situation where you thought life would begin or life would change, yet, you aren't happy, the things you havce strived for all your life, don't make you happy, this is the schism.
If you have gotten to the end of the rainbow and seen you can't escape yourself or reality or your reality, and thngs like marriage or even being a mother actually had the opposite effect, you are just torn in what future your child has, when you know the thinigs on the horizon aren't really worth moving towards even though we still have to plod along in life. You have done everything right, and yet you do not feel as though you have won, and for him, you want him not to have this schism too, this divide, this double life, this parallel existence.
You don't have to worry that he is going to find out the things in life that you have. In fact, the things that happen to the parent are spared on the offspring, that is the one guarentee in bringing up offspring, none that come from us will ever have to suffer what we went through, but there are other worlds to discover.
So you should not worry about him dying, you should not even worry about him playing the game of life winning and then not being unhappy, you have taken that arrow to the heart and your chest has shielded his as long as yo umake him realise the "stupid" way you feel, (I don't mean to insult, I am just posychoanalyzing the way people who have those kinds of depression, when they feel a depression that is unwarrented) Skyler will see that it is baseless, and when he does attain success, he will not get into that alternative form of existence, he will divide into another being than from the form in which you moulded him, men in general like to become experienced, for to become a man loss of innocence is integral. This is what you worry for him too, but innocence desires wisdom, so there is nothing you can do, he is going to be a seasoned happy man, wise from your years.
