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[quote=Anonymous]I think you handled it just fine.  I would've answered the same way.

My kids are 7 and 4 and we've had discussions about death - mostly in the context of my own mother dying long before they were born ("mom, why don't you have a mom?"), and our very old dog who could go at any time.  We gave the same explanation - when people die, their bodies stop working, dog is old, every living thing dies, etc.  We also believe in heaven, so we explained that's where people go when they die.   When my oldest was 5, he started asking really deep questions about how a person gets to heaven, what is heaven like, and why do we have cemeteries if people go to heaven, etc.  I've often found that honestly answering, "I don't really know" suffices for these type of questions.

When my kids get worried about me and DH dying - which isn't often - I've told them it won't happen for a long time, no need to worry about it now, and that we will always be with them in their hearts.

You may get a bunch of additional questions, which I think is normal.  For a while, my now-4-year-old went around pointing at things in the house and asking, "will this die? will they die? will I die?"  I answered her matter-of-factly and she seemed ok with the answers.

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