Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 07/18/2003 - 3:50pm.
Archived comment by marinerd:
I have a variation on the childhood angst theme. I always tried to teach my kids that there are many opinions about what happens to people when they die. I told them I lean towards reincarnation as the most likely, IMHO. Anyway, when my son was about 4 he started getting very depressed, and it turns out he was worried that he would live forever and it would be sooo boring! I tried to comfort him by saying I might be wrong and death is the end, or that even if I was right, he wouldn't remember from one life to the next!
My daughter at about the same age was overcome with grief when a gameshow host of a show we watched died. It was Jack Barry from Joker's Wild. She loved that show. Ha!
(He was famous for getting in trouble in the 50s gameshow scandal.)
Kids! They both grew up to be fine people, though.
I have a variation on the childhood angst theme. I always tried to teach my kids that there are many opinions about what happens to people when they die. I told them I lean towards reincarnation as the most likely, IMHO. Anyway, when my son was about 4 he started getting very depressed, and it turns out he was worried that he would live forever and it would be sooo boring! I tried to comfort him by saying I might be wrong and death is the end, or that even if I was right, he wouldn't remember from one life to the next!
My daughter at about the same age was overcome with grief when a gameshow host of a show we watched died. It was Jack Barry from Joker's Wild. She loved that show. Ha!
(He was famous for getting in trouble in the 50s gameshow scandal.)
Kids! They both grew up to be fine people, though.