How do you approach the topic of death with small children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I told my son that you have to be very old, "like 80 or 100" to die (fortunately this was never tested). This helped him to calm down about us or his grandparents dying any time soon. Otherwise I was very factual with his questions. If I recall correctly, this was a short phase.

Whatever you do OP, don't do what this poster did. Worst advice ever.