mookface posted:

My daughter asked me out of the blue one day if I was going to die. I told her that yes, I was going to die. She expressed to me that she did not want me to die. I told her it wasn't for a long time. She believed my lies.

After a few minutes she asked me if she was going to die. I told her that yes, she was going to die. She told me that she didn't want to die. I told her that I didn't want her to die either but not to worry because that wouldn't be for a long time. She believed that lie too.

She asked me then what it was like to be dead. I told her she has already been dead, for a long long time before she was born. That wasn't so bad now was it? She was pensive for a moment, quiet. She told me she remembered what it was like when she was a dead baby and that the nothing was ok. She said again, totally at ease that the nothing was ok