(July 18, 2017 at 9:59 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Not really a joke, but an amusing story!
So I went over to visit my religious Uncle today. Took my kids with me. (He's visiting my mom, so I figured I'd pay him a visit while he's here). Anyway, they're talking about their mom's (my grandmother) death. And of course the kids overhear them. So he asks one of my youngest (her sister had already left the room at the time) "Do you know about death?"
She nods her head. He then asks "Do you know where people go when they die?"
And I'm thinking "Here it comes. Indoctrination central."
My youngest daughter nods her head. I'm thinking "Okay, phew. Crisis averted."
Then my uncle asks "Where do they go?"
And I'm like "Oh gosh. What's her answer going to be." She's almost 8, so I have no idea what she's going to say. I mean I'm an atheist, and we've only really told her that some people believe in heaven, others in reincarnation, and others think that we don't know, while others think that we just cease to exist.
And then she says--in her most matter-of-fact voice "The cemetery!"
(Well, she wasn't wrong!)
Smart girl.
Dying to live, living to die.