“Daddy, what will happen when we die?”
December 4th, 2010My four year old son asked about death again today, for the first time in a while (about 6 months ago, he went through a phase of asking about death). This one took me a little by surprise, though.
Alex: “Daddy, what will happen when we die?”
Me: “Well, it’ll be like going to sleep.”
Alex: “And then what will happen?”
Uh oh…he’s not accepting the death=sleep answer. He wants an afterlife…
Alex: “Will it be dinosaurs again?”
Huh?
Oh…oh, wait, he means “what will happen when we (humanity) die out.”
Me: “It might be, or maybe something else.”
Alex: “Maybe monsters.” (he says smiling)
Me: “And what about after that? What comes after the monsters? Dinosaurs again?”
Alex: “I don’t think so.”
Me: “Maybe it’ll just be a ton of rabbits.”
Alex: “Infinite rabbits!!”
He seems very pleased with the world being full of infinite rabbits in the far future.
