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[quote=Anonymous]My kids were 2 and 4 when my grandma died. They had a lot of questions.

We talked about what would happen to her physical body. She had been old and very sick for a long time and doctors helped her for as long as they could until her body didn't work anymore. We talked about how they would put her in a box and bury her in a hole in the ground. Then we went to the funeral and saw her (open casket funerals are creepy, btw) and for some reason she was buried with her glasses on and my kids wanted to know why she needed her glasses when she was dead. It's ok to say "I don't know" at any point about death and that was one of the times I said it. We watched them lower her coffin into the ground and talked about how her body would turn into dirt and help trees and plants grow (we compost at home, so they sort of understood that).

We also talked a lot about "where" she was spiritually/emotionally. We talked about how it's ok to be sad and to miss her and when we miss her, we can cry or talk about her or look at pictures, and that even though she's dead, we will always have the memory of her. [/quote]

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