The eight-year-old girl could not believe that her father was no longer alive. She stood by the coffin throughout the ceremony—silently, motionless, her hands resting on the edge, and peering inside, as if waiting for her father to open his eyes. Her mother tried several times to pull her out, but the child stubbornly remained there. Finally, she asked for a chair so that she could be closer to her father. She climbed up, sat down, and did not move for the rest of the evening. She neither ate no