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Death affects young children much differently than it affects adults. Most children see death as this weird and confusing thing that makes everybody sad and they know that their friend or family member is never going to come back. Adults look at death as an inevitability and as the end, so they want to get out and enjoy life as much as possible. The unique thing here is that death is something that can happen to anyone at any given time. It can happen to a kid just as easy as it can to an adult, thus proving that death's unpredictability is what makes it so terrifying.
Just because a child may not understand death, he will still feel the full effect of it,
especially if he experiences it firsthand such as Bruce Weigl in his short story entitled Spike. "My father half turns his head away when the policeman draws the hammer back and squeezes off a round into the rat dog's brain. This is the end of things, I think. Nothing can go on from this. . . . I stand on the......

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