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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': When Freddy is a young hamster, his Great-Grandmother lives in the same cage as him and his siblings, until she enters Eternal Hibernation. Freddy thinks she's asleep until the pet store clerk takes her away. Freddy's siblings don't care much, since hamsters aren't social animals, but Freddy greatly misses her because she was the only other hamster who was interested in thinking and talking instead of fighting.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Caillou}}'' has the episode "Caillou is Getting Older", which is about Caillou and his family learning about growing up, aging, and death after Caillou and his father both find and then bury a dead bird in their backyard together, which according to Caillou's father, has died of old age.
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Contrast DogGotSentToAFarm, where adults avoid telling kids the truth about death.
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Contrast DogGotSentToAFarm, where adults avoid telling kids the truth about death.
death. And also contrast DeathAsComedy where a person's death is PlayedForLaughs.
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* In ''Literature/HayyIbnYaqzan'', the titular WildChild is [[RaisedByWolves raised by a gazelle]], who dies of old age when he's about eight. Hayy searches her body for anything that could be wrong with her, to no avail. He decides that there must be something inside her whose malfunction caused her whole body to stop working, and cuts her open in the hopes of finding it and fixing it. He finds that one of the cavities in her heart is missing. Hayy concludes that this cavity contained what made the gazelle live, but now it's gone and will never return.
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* In ''Literature/HayyIbnYaqzan'', the titular WildChild is [[RaisedByWolves raised by a gazelle]], who dies of old age when he's about eight. Hayy searches her body for anything that could be wrong with her, to no avail. He decides that there must be something inside her whose malfunction caused her whole body to stop working, and cuts her open in the hopes of finding it and fixing it. He finds that one of the cavities in her heart is missing. empty. Hayy concludes that this cavity contained what made the gazelle live, but now it's gone and will never return.return.
* ''Literature/{{Rubbernecker}}'': Patrick's father was killed in a hit-and-run when he was eight. Patrick didn't understand that death means a person has disappeared forever -- he thought his father must have gone somewhere and spent the next year asking obsessively, 'What happened to Daddy?' This led into a years-long fascination with death. Patrick would collect, examine, and dissect dead animals and watch footage of horses dying in racing accidents. As an eighteen-year-old, he decides to study anatomy in order to better understand death. [[spoiler:Patrick's mother Sarah finally confesses that she killed her husband while trying to [[OffingTheOffspring run Patrick down]]. Now that Patrick knows the reason his father died, he can achieve closure and stop obsessing over death.]]
* ''Literature/{{Rubbernecker}}'': Patrick's father was killed in a hit-and-run when he was eight. Patrick didn't understand that death means a person has disappeared forever -- he thought his father must have gone somewhere and spent the next year asking obsessively, 'What happened to Daddy?' This led into a years-long fascination with death. Patrick would collect, examine, and dissect dead animals and watch footage of horses dying in racing accidents. As an eighteen-year-old, he decides to study anatomy in order to better understand death. [[spoiler:Patrick's mother Sarah finally confesses that she killed her husband while trying to [[OffingTheOffspring run Patrick down]]. Now that Patrick knows the reason his father died, he can achieve closure and stop obsessing over death.]]
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Contrast DogGotSentToAFarm, where adults avoid telling kids the truth about death.
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Death is a difficult enough matter for adults to deal with. It's no surprise, then, that children find it especially painful when they meet death for the first time. It's easy to imagine how upset they'll feel if, when one of their grandparents or a beloved family pet dies, even the grown-ups cry.
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Death is a difficult enough matter for adults to deal with. It's no surprise, then, that children find it especially painful when they meet death for the first time. It's easy to imagine how upset they'll feel if, when one of their grandparents or a beloved family pet dies, even the grown-ups cry.
cry. It's even worse if they have to learn WeAllDieSomeday, not just goldfish. The experience may include some or all of the FiveStagesOfGrief, but at very least an acknowledgment that ItsOkayToCry.
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* An episode of ''Series/Zoey101'' has Zoey invite Chase's grandmother to his birthday party as a surprise after he talks about how close they are and how much he misses her. The grandmother agrees, but has to cancel at the last minute because of the flu. On the day of the party, Chase is a no-show and Michael reveals that it's because his grandmother's illness was more than just the flu and she's passed away. Zoey goes to find Chase, who's just sitting out in the rain. The episode ends with Zoey comforting him while he cries. While they're both teenagers and thus do comprehend death, it's still a kick in the teeth[[note]]more than it usually is[[/note]] for a loved one to die ''on your birthday''.
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* An episode of ''Series/Zoey101'' has Zoey invite Chase's grandmother to his birthday party as a surprise after he talks about how close she learns that they are and how much he misses her. both share a birthday. The grandmother agrees, agrees but has to cancel at the last minute because of the flu. On the day of the party, Chase is a no-show and Michael reveals that it's because his grandmother's illness was more than just the flu and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday she's passed away.away]]. Zoey goes to find Chase, who's just sitting out in the rain. The episode ends with Zoey comforting him while he cries. While they're both teenagers and thus do comprehend death, it's still a kick in the teeth[[note]]more than it usually is[[/note]] for a loved one to die ''on on your birthday''.shared birthday.
