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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, I've been through this too. With my Aunt, she ended up doing most of the talking so I did some active listening and accepted her advice, and told her all my favorite things I learned from her. My Granddad, well, he wanted us to pray the rosary with him ... none of us could remember precisely how. Oops (so brush up on that!!). So there was some laughter, some tears, some awkward chit chat. Lots of love, hand holding, and meaningful eye contact where words just wouldn't work. Can you take some photos of memorable times to share with him?

My kids have been through this at various ages too and their questions have varied. I read Leo Buscaglia's "Fall of Freddie the Leaf" and Maria Shriver has a few books on talking to children about death that take a Catholic bent. But mostly when they were 3 and went through it, we gave it a light touch as they really won't have much memory about it later. Simple and straight forward with not too much detail depending on what they ask you. When they were older, we openly shared our grief so they could learn from our example, and did our best to answer their questions.

My sympathies.

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