Originally Posted by Dogstar
From Wikipedea...1945, Early Casper cartoons seemed to suggest this, ( he did die as a child ) as they portrayed him "living" beside a gravestone.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock answer provided by Harvey Comics in response to those wondering how Casper died was that he was a ghost simply because his parents were already ghosts when they were married.
The 1995 feature film Casper, Casper's story is that he was left out to play in the snow and forgotten by his father, dying of pneumonia.
wait, his father was dying of pneumonia? or casper was because his father forgot him?