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[quote=Anonymous]We had our elderly next door neighbor pass away after a brief sudden illness. We are close to the family (widow still lives there, grandkids play with my kids when they visit, etc). It was sad but also a good opportunity to discuss and get the questions out in the open for my five year old. I let him lead with the questions. We ended up talking about: -Generally older people die after they have lived a long time (one of our neighbors is actually 100 years old-kids are very excited about this). Kids very rarely die. Most people get to live a long life. We don’t know for sure what happens after people die. Our mind/spirit leaves the body because it stops pumping blood. Some people believe the spirit goes to heaven and others believe the spirit becomes another person (Disney movie helped here) but we don’t know for sure because we can’t talk to people after they’ve died. Dying is part of what makes life very precious to us. [/quote]
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