Abstract · We all have experienced the hypocrisy of a social group: while it has high expectations for the individuals, it also knows that the members calling others to account are breaking the norms, too. How can this affect the spiritual health of people who wish to recover and heal from the pain of losing someone and also wish to live up to these norms? Why can someone following the norms be excluded?

The death of his daughter and the grief experiences of his relatives equally encouraged László Németh to write. In his work (1930-1935), the mother is provoked to hold on to mourning by the expectations of the community and by her damaged self-esteem. If there is not enough support from the sociocultural environment, personal development will take a wrong turn.

Abstract · The aim of this study is to examine the level of death anxiety experienced by kindergarten children’s parents, its influence on the presence of death as a topic in parent-child communication and its indirect effect on children’s attitude towards death. Results have shown that children above the age of three are getting intensely interested in talking about passing away, and most of the children above the age of four ask their parents spontaneously about the end of life. Parents’ attitude towards death (their death anxiety) influences the presence of the topic in parent-child communication, and it also has an impact on the different aspects of death appearing in their conversations. Parents’ personal thoughts and beliefs about departure often show elements that we attribute to children’s interpretation of death: persistence of physiological and cognitive functions, questioning the finality of separation, hope in the avoidability of death. The explanations children get from their parents often imply that psychological functions live on, which appears in children’s interpretations of death as well.