Age at DeathDeath is a different experience at different times in life, it is very different to die at two years old than it is at 12, 22, 42, 62 or 82. An infant or mentally disabled person has a very dim light, very little self-awareness. Knowledge of or emotional attachment to their lives is minimal or non-existent.A pre-school child imagines death primarily as a separation from her parents. She fears losing them, and she fears going to a hospital. These fears are more real than the fear of death. With some explanation, she may come to think of death as being like a long sleep or going to see God 0 whom0 she imagines as an extension of her parents, an authority figure.Between the ages of six and twelve, death is still a fantasy, distant and unreal. If a child this age has been told he will die, he may misbehave or complain of every little ache and pain to get attention and the reassurance that he is loved and won’t be abandoned. The child has become involved with people outside the family, but hasn’t much concept of the future. Death may be seen as an interruption of achievements […]

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