Death and child

Abstract

The death of a child, made us to meditate about our own experiences with child and death. The classmates of this child organized themselves and made, spontaneously, a sorrow manifestation to the child´s relatives during the deathwatch and the burial, although they didn´t have most of their relatives support. It seems that it is common to adults the deny behavior about death to children. How do they frequently live with death? What is the meaning of death to them? Focus on this questions we made the purpose of this work: to understand the meaning of death to school children who lived with the death of a classmate. Their speech at the beginning seems to us that they had religious matrix. After a lot of readings, new interpretation were possible, and they had showed us others signification inherent from the human beings.