A 30-year-old terminally ill patient is concerned about how her 7-year-old child will perceive her death. What advice from the nurse would be most beneficial?
1. Children this age recognize that death is permanent.
2. Children this age emotionally distance themselves from the death.
3. Because the child fears separation the patient can prepare the child by explaining that death is permanent.
4. Children this age think death is sleeping.
Correct Answer: 1
Age is a great determinant of beliefs about death. Children this age understand the finality of death. At the age of 7, children do not have the emotional maturity to distance themselves from death. The ability to understand separation has been mastered by the age of 7. Children this age do not think that death is sleeping.
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