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They may associate death with a skeleton or the angel of death. Some children have nightmares associated with these images. From 9 - 10 and up to adolescence children begin to understand exactly what death is irreversible, that all who are dying and that they, too, once they die. Some are beginning to work on developing philosophical views on life and death. Teens are often looking for the meaning of life. Some teens react to the fear of death that are risking their lives. In Imminence death, they try to overcome their fears, claiming its "control" over the death. Individual experience also is useful to know about the stages of comprehension of children issues related to death, it is important to realize that, like all processes of growth and development of children have individual rates. It is also important to always remember that the way in which every child gets the experience of his life, the only of its kind and has a unique form of expression and ways of managing feelings. Some children ask questions about death as early as 3 years. Others can not disturb the death of my grandfather or grandmother, but they can strongly react to the death of a pet. Others may never mention death, but they still express their imaginations in play. They may be a toy or animal dies, and express their feelings through play with their friends, paying attention to the dying or developing elaborate funeral ceremony. Special relationship with the problem of death in children suffering from life-threatening diseases. Despite the fact that both parents and physicians tend to consider it necessary to conceal from the child the seriousness of his illness, many children, as research has shown, are well aware of the seriousness of his situation. Experience in support groups in the children's cancer clinic showed that children (certainly not all) want to know more about their disease. They know or guess that the parents carefully concealed from them, and this contradiction only reinforces their anxiety and fears. How would the children not cope with the problem of death, in whatever form or express their feelings, they need full sympathy and non-judgmental response from adults. Careful watching them and listening can give us important clues to understanding how best to respond to children's problems. Difficulties involved in Conversation with young children Communicating with preschool children and younger students can be very difficult regardless of the topic. Explanations for children should be short and simple. Long lectures, and confusing answers, most likely just confuse them or tired. Using a specific and well-known examples may make your task easier. For example, Dr. Grollman suggests in his book "Explaining Death to Children" to make death more understandable, explaining the lack of it as normal manifestations of life. When people die, they do not breathe, do not eat, do not tell, do not think or feel anything. When dogs die they do not bark, do not run, dead flowers no longer grow and bloom.