With so many scientific investigations or speculations about the meaning of death to children, it may be strange that this article deals with the expression of direct experiences with death and with recorded sayings of children about death as we find them in autobiographies or in art, in stories written by children, or sayings of young children notes by observers.

Plank, Emma & Plank Robert: Children and Death. An Offprint of The Psycholanalytic Study of the Child. Volume 33/1978: