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What children want to know about death - and how you can answer

9/13/2020, 6:41:00 PM


What happens if someone dies on the plane? Does the bowel empty again after death? Children's questions about death can be challenging for adults. An undertaker wants to help.

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Caitlin Doughty

, born in 1984. Studied Medieval History in Chicago, then trained as an undertaker.

She later founded an organization that works to overcome fear and insecurity in dealing with the dead.

Today Doughty owns a funeral parlor in Los Angeles and her YouTube series "Ask a Mortician" has more than a million subscribers.

Your question to the expert: What do your children want to know?

Do your children ask questions about death that you find difficult to answer yourself?

Write to us at familie@spiegel.de - we will forward the question to Caitlin Doughty.

You can read your questions - and the expert's answers - in a follow-up article on SPIEGEL.de in the coming weeks.

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