My husband and I are non-religious, meaning that we avoid making references to a God or any other deity. We've recently experienced a loss in the family and we don't know how to discuss it with our children. We don't want to say "Person A has gone to heaven" because we don't believe in that. What have other non-religious families said to explain death to young ones?
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I'm not religious at all. I prefer to be honest that the person remains/goes in our memory and that we can remember them anytime we want to.
I recently had a death in my family as well and we aren't religious as well my self and my son lived with my mother (she passed away April 8th this year) and I tell my son that she is on a big long holiday (he is 4 and has autism and global development delay) i just let my son know that his nanny loves him and misses him it's just a way and when there is a storm i tell him that the lighting is his nanny and his great grandparents are taking pictures and the thunder is them talking to him or telling him to behave hopefully this helps u
You could speak about the natural circle of life, we grow, we live and we die, its natural, our bodies go into the earth and new trees grow from it and it goes on in a cirle. It was this persons time to go, theyre gone and not coming back and now theyre part of the earth again and we can remember them in the trees, the rain, the ocean waves, in the flowers, on the wind, whatever it was they loved.
Hope that could help, sorry for your loss xx
We experienced a death of a child in our family and we explained to our children that they are now a beautiful star in the sky, and will shine brightly every night down on us, they go out at night and point to the stars and say goodnight it is very touching