Three-year-old Tristan finds a dead fish on the beach. Although he says that the fish is dead, he asks, "When is the fish going to get up and swim?" Tristan is having trouble understanding the death concept of

A) permanence.
B) inevitability.
C) cessation.
D) applicability.


A

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What will be an ideal response?

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