Talking With Children and Young People about Death and Dying

Death and Dying (book) - Mary Turner, Bob Thomas

Introduction

Being afraid of death is normal. It is related to something we don't know. How can we speak of death with children? What is death? The repeated question asked by children to their elders. It is very difficult to explain children mysterious death, but that does not detract from the subject. At the age of four, many children will approach their parent and elders regarding this question.

The book written by “Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying”, By Mary Turner, Bob Thomas is divided in two section and this book is very in which adults can find how to convey death to children as many adults find this task difficult. Furthermore, the author has covered numerous phases of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one and provides helpful vision of the children concern with the grief of imminent bereavement.

Discussion

The author of this book has concentrated on the common fear and worries of children. Furth more, children usually experiences nightmares and dreams and recognize the consequence of distress on the process of the anguish. According to the author, this book is very useful for the young people and children of any age can assist to meet their need and information based on their culture and belief. The reason mention in the book by the author is that, talking about death leads us inevitably to the idea of our own demise. Regardless of our discourse, child fear, in one way or another, to suggest to children one day we will die too and thus leave him alone. It is also not inconsistent, since the first anxiety about the child's death of a person associated with him is a separation anxiety. The first question that arises is: "Does mom or dad can die too?” (www.childbereavement.org.uk).

Furthermore, it has been identified a lot in children that when parents or their love one project them into their emotions, they wonder what we would have felt if we were in the same age. Therefore, everything depends on how we, children, have been confronted with death, or abandonment anxiety. Those who have suffered as a child of divorce, death, a depressed parent who has abandoned the mentally or any other type of loss, will find it harder to address these issues, because they will tend ...