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Development of a Child's Understanding of Death

Ages 2-5

Death is recognized but not understood as being permanent. Death may be viewed as sleep.

Ages 5-9

Death is beginning to be recognized as being permanent, but there is an inability to understand it as something that could happen to them. Death may be personified as an angel, skeleton and so on.

By Age 10

Death is viewed as being permanent, irreversible, and inevitable. Inability exists to understand that it can happen to anyone at any- time.

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Excerpted from The Health Teacher's Book of Lists.


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