A book which answers questions adults do not usually think need answering, but those which children sometimes need to know. Chapters include: All living things die; What happens to the body; Death announcements; The funeral ceremony; After the funeral; Remembering the dead; Beliefs about death. Information found in the text includes: death certificates; autopsy; embalming; epitaphs; life insurance policies; the eulogy; memorials (for example, the Taj Mahal). Beliefs about death includes Christian and Hindu. It finishes with [e]ven though people we know do die, they continue to stay alive in our memories of them.
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