Social Your child asks you about death

[Harry Dresden]

Let's say your tucking your child in at night and all the sudden they are scared and tell you they are afraid to die?

What do you that have kids tell them? It doesn't have to be your kid either it could be siblings significant others friends etc.

Im wondering what Aethiests say to their kid to comfort them if they ask that..."Nothing happens son you cease to exist forever."

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

"Don't fuck with me and you'll be fine"

 

[GoodBadHBK]

You abandoned your child so who cares

 

[Danespina]

I just hand them this: "It'll explain everything."

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

My kids have been exposed to death. In just the last three years they lost my wife’s grandmother (their great grandmother) my dad (their grandpa) and our family dog. I just tell my kids they’re all in heaven even though I don’t believe in any of that personally.

 

[italiamusica]

Im wondering what Aethiests say to their kid to comfort them if they ask that..."Nothing happens son you cease to exist forever."

Why would anyone say that to their kid, unless they hated them and wanted them to be scared and miserable? Lol.

I would do what my parents did, and let my kid establish their own thoughts on any major subject. I remember my folks saying something like, "we don't know, no one knows what happens when we die," and I think that's a reasonable answer. Because it's true, no one knows. People can have their ideas and hopes and dreams and visions, but it's a veiled darkness.

 

[chardog]

it's a phase and they'll get over it. My younger one was in this phase last year, kept crying about me dying because younger parents than me have died before. It was non stop for weeks, she'd get depressed and start crying in the middle of walking to school...... and now, it's gone, the phase is over.

 

[TheNinja]

I believe in heaven so I tell them we will end up in heaven with no more sin or pain or death. But we hope we won’t go to heaven for a long time.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Let's say your tucking your child in at night and all the sudden they are scared and tell you they are afraid to die?

What do you that have kids tell them? It doesn't have to be your kid either it could be siblings significant others friends etc.

Im wondering what Aethiests say to their kid to comfort them if they ask that..."Nothing happens son you cease to exist forever."

To be honest no one knows definitively what happens after. Just be honest and say that you don't know, but make the best of you life now, this could be your last and you got nothing to lose.

 

[Kardashians]

When I was five years old I went through a time where every night I’d go to bed then cry thinking about dying. The first time I went out to my mother and she yelled at me to get back to bed so I just dwelled on it for a period of time. As a kid I didn’t believe in god or heaven or afterlife. And I guess the nothingness of eternity is what scared me.

Now I welcome it.

 

[Pierce 34]

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I'd tell him not to worry, scientists say we are living in a simulation, and he potentially isn't even real

 

[William Huggins]

Tell, them there's no respawn so you can't spawn camp......

 

[DaleBoca]

I pretend I didn’t hear the kid and in a jovial mood I say “Who wants ice cream?!?!!” They forget about it and we don’t discuss it.

You’re welcome. Parent of the year.

 

[Tone C]

I'll say " You're 23 you cunt , man up ".

 

[Versez]

@Sonny Qc what’s up with those depressing threads these days ? lol.

 

[zapataxiv]

Let's say your tucking your child in at night and all the sudden they are scared and tell you they are afraid to die?

What do you that have kids tell them? It doesn't have to be your kid either it could be siblings significant others friends etc.

Im wondering what Aethiests say to their kid to comfort them if they ask that..."Nothing happens son you cease to exist forever."

I havent had the talk with my kids. But, both my parents were Athiests when i was a kid.

My mom worked in a hospital during a particularly violent time in Denver's history. So, she was quite glib about death. She said basically what you said. But added that death is part of the cycle of our universe and everything around us will "die" eventually.

My dad said that we dont know what will happen but to worry about it too much will distract you from enjoying life.

I think i will pass on to my kids what my dad said primarily.

 

[Sonny Qc]

@Sonny Qc what’s up with those depressing threads these days ? lol.

I don't know, and it is fckng depressing.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Harden the fuck up. You are on easy mode right now, it gets worse.

 

[KeepingItReal]

Let's say your tucking your child in at night and all the sudden they are scared and tell you they are afraid to die?

What do you that have kids tell them? It doesn't have to be your kid either it could be siblings significant others friends etc.

Im wondering what Aethiests say to their kid to comfort them if they ask that..."Nothing happens son you cease to exist forever."

Why only atheists? Is there any religion that says you will live on the way you are right now? For sure this body stays on the earth (except for the astronauts who happen to die in space), so definitely you won't exists the way you do right now.

Anyways why comfort them? So you can put their intelligence to sleep? If you have any care for your children then definitely you shouldn't try to put their intelligence to sleep with lame stories about how they will live on after they die.