Oct 1st 2013: Anurag's Dad passed away
Mira: ....[talking incessantly about her beloved Dadaji's passing this morning] ...hmmm...what happens when we die, Mommy?
[Context: We are not religious -- actually we are atheists -- and so we don't have explanations about God and heaven that we can offer... did wonder this morning if that would be easier, actually]
Me: Well life just ends! Actually the world ends -- for the person who dies. There is no more world. There is a saying "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" so the body just disintegrates and disappears and becomes part of the dust, and earth and the universe again which, is where we come from, are part of anyway.
Mira: Oh! So Dadaji is now in the rain, in the stars...
Me: ... in everything. Yes - exactly, ...we come from that and go back to that...we are a part of the Universe.
2 DAYS LATER...
[While I am driving Mira to school]
Mira: That means we are breathing dead people too! EWWWW...
:-)
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