From the moment of birth we are invested in life, gradually engaging in the world as development unfolds and forming the attachments to people that will become our foundation. Our fantasies and dreams about the future and the gratification of our desires and needs in the present require an active, resolute engagement in the process of living. There is no such analogous engagement or investment in death. Although by age four a child begins to grasp the notion of death, it takes years of development before the understanding of death is more complete; even as