Question

According to the findings of Maria Nagy's study in the 1940s, children who are under five years of age do not understand that death is irreversable.

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Answer 1

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According to the study done by Maria Nagy on 400 hungarian children who were between the age of three to ten observes that kids develop through three stages to arrive at a mature concept of death.During stage one that the children between the ages of three and five years believed that death does not mean that the individual will not come back rather it means another stage in life where individual is less active and can return to the world of the living. Nagy identifies Stage two, from five to nine years of age where children progressed to an understanding that death is final and irreversible but children believe that the death can be escaped through. Final?y, only during the stage three when kids are of age nine and above, they develop a mature understanding of death as universal and irreversible.