htened of their parent's dieing and their own deaths (Elkind, 2000).
             Children can be indirectly exposed to death in many ways. Most children are exposed to violence on television and in the movies. Many children often play death games endlessly such as "G.I joe", and "Cowboys and Indians". A boy playing with his toy soldiers uses death as a game more than a reality. The need for a happy ending in fairytales and the presence of "good guys" and "bad guys" in such stories often confounds a child's perception of bereavement. For example, the good grandmother in little red riding hood emerges from the stomach of the wolf, hale and hearty, representing complete denial of death. From this we can conclude that a child's perception of dieing and death can be perplexed and twisted out of proportion in many ways, unless the parents intervene (op.cit).
             Adults are frightened by the thoughts of finality, so perhaps for this reason many adults try in every way to keep from children the idea of death. Parents wish to protect their offspring, and often try to convince themselves that their youngsters are "too young to understand". Parents avoid confronting the issue because they themselves do not wish to think about it, and try to not burden their children (according to their explanation) with the worries and depressive feelings of adulthood (Grollman, 1967).
             However, it is the children who are often persi
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