– Erik Homburger Erikson (June 15, 1902 – May 12, 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings.
Children learn every aspect of life from their elders, including how to live and how to die with integrity. Integrity according to Websters is:
1) firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility
2) an unimpaired condition : soundness
3) the quality or state of being complete or undivided: completeness
The secret to living a life without fear is to have nothing to fear, and if one lives a life which is honest, morally deeply rooted, is unswayed by the negative opinions of other and lived to its fullest, then one has nothing to fear in life, nor death. When one leads a life of integrity, then there is nothing to fear in death, thus when one teaches a child how to die with integrity they inadvertently teach them how to live with integrity. Teaching our children by example will not lead only to one who is at peace in life and death, but to a free society were fear is an unnecessary objected that only serves to impede peace and prosperity.