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A group of 215 U.S. and 188 Brazilian urban, middle class children ages 10 and 11 completed a 4-item questionnaire about death. The responses were categorized and compared. The authors came to the following conclusions: Significant differences in thoughts about death appear to be cultural and specifically tied to sex role expectations. Patterns of thoughts about death appear to be more consistent among the Brazilian than the U.S. children. It appears that religion strongly influences the Brazilian girls' conceptualizations of death but not the other children's in the sample. Although there were many differences in concepts of death between the U.S. and the Brazilian children, there were also numerous similarities.
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