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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Just curious, when you have to explain death, do you just say "and when you die, you become worm food?"[/quote]

No, when my grandmother died when my son was 4, I told my child what I believe which is that her consciousness no longer existed, that she couldn't feel or think any more.  I also told him that my mother (his grandmother) believed something different, that her consciousness, which is also called a soul, had left her body and gone to be with God in a place called Heaven.  I told him it was up to him what to believe.  He decided we were both wrong, and that Granny had been reincarnated.  A few years later we lost another loved one, and this time he found comfort in the idea of Heaven and imagined her to be there.  Both times I encouraged him to find a truth that worked for him.

I also told him that while Grandma and I disagreed about what had happened to Granny's consciousness, we both agreed that her consciousness was no longer in her body, and that she no longer needed it, and that's why we had it cremated and the ashes scattered.

We have talked about how bodies decompose and act as nutrients for the earth, but mostly in connection with pets such as the Beta fish we buried in the back yard.  [/quote]

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