Death Understanding and Fear of Death in Young Children
Children’s first recognition of death is at the period when they learn about the basic biological concepts of life and death – the preschool period. At this period, though the concept is still immature, children usually think death as something that occurs only to some/other people such as the ailing and/or aging people and therefore can be avoided by having a healthy lifestyle and avoiding accidents. For children, death is a normal interruption to the living state, as if one is still alive even though death had already caught you, thinking that the dead can still do and need the things the living does. Furthermore, they are not even aware of the real possible causes of death other than internal factors such as illness or external factors such as accidents (Slaughter & Griffiths, 2007).
Source:
Slaughter, V. & Griffiths, M. (2007). Death Understanding and Fear of Death in Young
Children. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12. Doi: 10.1177/1359104507080980
Entry of: Lemuel John Beduya
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