When we die

[securespark]

The oldest asked a good few years ago what you can do when you're dead. I tried to explain it like this:

I said, you can't see, hear, talk, move, think, eat or breathe.

He was most worried about not being able to breathe....

That's like telling them death is like being buried alive!

You might think that was helpful, but that is a wrong approach!

I should add that I prefixed that sentence with, "Your body stops working."....

 

[chapeau]

I don't think you did anything wrong telling them that, no need to be defensive.

You could have told them Jesus would save them and they would go to heaven to live with their grandparents. Now that is really child abuse.

 

[Norcon]

Not everyone dies. The people who are never born don't.

 

[Norcon]

I don't think you did anything wrong telling them that, no need to be defensive.

You could have told them Jesus would save them and they would go to heaven to live with their grandparents. Now that is really child abuse.

Typical response from a heathen.

 

[chapeau]

Thank you !

 

[Norcon]

I see you've got a follower.
About 99% heathens on here so hardly surprising.

 

[chapeau]

Not a follower, a free thinking individual who just happens to agree with me.

It's the religious types who follow cos they cannot think for themselves.

Does this count as thread drift

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

I was lucky my kids worked it out themselves and informed me they don't beleive in santa or god ,they both went to a christian school

 

[JBR]

The same way you can cure my curiosity as to how your spelling has dramatically improved once more.

Still not quite up to full stops and capital letters yet, though!

 

[joinerjohn]

I was lucky my kids worked it out themselves and informed me they don't beleive in santa or god ,they both went to a christian school

My youngest daughter was dyslexic. She believed in Dog and Satan.

 

[conny]

The oldest asked a good few years ago what you can do when you're dead. I tried to explain it like this:

I said, you can't see, hear, talk, move, think, eat or breathe.

He was most worried about not being able to breathe....

That's like telling them death is like being buried alive!

You might think that was helpful, but that is a wrong approach!

I should add that I prefixed that sentence with, "Your body stops working."....

So half the dole-ites are actually dead. That will help cut the benefits deficit!

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Not everyone dies. The people who are never born don't.

nor does Bruce Forsyth

 

[joinerjohn]

nor does Bruce Forsyth

Come on PBD, Brucie's died a thousand deaths on stage during his career.

 

[pred]

The best introduction to the concept of death for children is to buy them a small pet. Mouse/hamster etc which could live a few years before popping it's clogs. Perhaps a cat or a dog after that. Also teaches them a bit of responsibility (by looking after the pet).
Personally, I don't believe death is something to be frightened of (after all it is the very final act of life) You can't escape the inevitable.

But is it??? Maybe we metamorph or change into somthing else.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

nor does Bruce Forsyth

Come on PBD, Brucie's died a thousand deaths on stage during his career.

I only wish the 1001th coming would also, then dodder off!