ild's part of their own susceptibility to death. Children are also very sensitive with regard to pain. Equivalent to the child's viewpoint held on vulnerability, Webb also believes that "elements of violence and trauma associated with the death also raise anxiety levels and may interfere with the grief process." (1993, p. 34) Eth and Pynoos also caution that "children are particularly vulnerable to the additive demands of trauma mastery and grief work. The obligatory efforts at relieving traumatic anxiety can complicate the mourning process, and greatly increase the likelihood of a pathological grief response." (1985, p. 179) From a social standpoint, the death holding a stigma that a culture is not inclined to (i.e.--suicide, AIDS, drug overdose, murder or homicide), the losses are labeled "disenfranchised grief" by Doka, and "(refers) to losses that cannot be openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned, or publicly mourned." These factors, intermixed with feelings of infamy and the natural feelings during grief, confound in the survivor and create feelings of guilt and animosity. Since the needs and desires of a child have either been changed or not met, this causes grief within the child, be it an infant or a teenager. S. Freud, D. W. Krueger, H. Nagera, J. Robertson, and J. ...
