A 30-year-old terminally ill patient is concerned about how her 7-year-old child will perceive her death. What advice from the nurse would be most beneficial?
A) Explain to the patient that children of this age recognize death is permanent.
B) Advise the patient that children that age emotionally distance themselves from the death.
C) Encourage the patient to prepare the child by explaining that death is permanent since the child fears separation.
D) Advise the patient that children at this age think death is sleeping.
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