Children's Concept of Death and Efficient Ways for Them to Confront It an Ethics approach

The aim of this paper is to study children’s perception of death, analyzing children’s reaction to the phenomenon of parents’ death and teaching them some methods to explicate death and efficiently confront it. In this regard, using Islamic and psychological authoritative texts, religious backgrounds were investigated. The collected data were analyzed through a hermeneutic method. The achieved results indicated that children have little information about death and the ways to face it. However, death phenomenon and the ways to face it could be taught to children. Objective, explicit and clear explanation, expressing feelings, participating children in consultation meetings and explicating the fact that life is endless by the language of children are among the effective methods in this regard. In addition, the results showed that art therapy methods such as creating memory boxes, harmonious sounds and stories appropriate to growth, spiritual and Quranic stories, and puppet shows not only could be effective on our recognition of children’s emotions about parents’ death but also they could be effective methods of emotional discharge and they will be helpful regarding their insights.