Are children more accepting of death than adults?

The death of a child is for most parents the worst thing that could happen to them. It is against the natural order for the child to die before the parents. But could it be that children are more accepting of death than adults?In Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death, Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, describes his debate with Richard Dawkins, the “militant atheist,” in which he asks Dawkins what he would say to a dying child. Holloway, the most bookish of priests, quoted from The Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart, a novel about the Holocaust. A child asks what death will be like, and an adult tells him it will be like a dream. A woman criticises the man for not being truthful, and he responds, “Madame, there is no room for truth here.” Holloway says that this must be the case…
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