10 sats \ 3 replies \ @CheezeGrater 20 May \ on: Explanation of death for my 7 year old daughter alter_native
It's an interesting idea to see yourself as a collection of atoms that go on to be other things when "you" are done being "you". In that sense, we are constantly dying, but in reality, it is the pattern of "us" that ends when we die, and as far as we know that pattern never "goes" anywhere else but away...
Yes of course, I understand your point. At first, when I explained to him what it means to die, I told him that it is as if the body shuts down because it has stopped working. He was 3 years old when I explained it to him. He had taken it calmly, but as he has grown, things have arisen. more doubts and fears that are actually very common and generated fear of death, he asked me what happened to his body after he died and I told him that it is usually buried and I wanted to give him an explanation as they say in the lion king, the endless cycle , I told her that we feed on animals and plants and then it is our turn to contribute to the cycle, giving our bodies to the earth to feed the plants and insects that are on the earth... the rest is her imagination.
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That's a good explanation for kids, the existential dread will come later anyway :)
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It is something natural and inevitable, we all have to deal with it at the time.
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