child becoming worried and fearful over death

And yet those who aren't strong with God do interfere with the Bible. Take the modern print, the King James Version. Written by the Church of England. A subsect of a greater being devolved via going against the very doctrines of the Bible. And oh, how everyone clings to this as the centre of all faith.

The trickery of satan is just an excuse to discourage thinking that is outside the churches doctrine, a way of keeping the masses under control.

When you read some other texts that didn't make it, it's pretty easy to see why.

Hares grow extra orifices every year, weasels are oral copulators, that kind of stuff

Faith in a nutshell :bigsmile:

I just realised that I need to be up for college in 40 minutes. Bollocks.

Or is it you guys that make garage sound like garrarge?

36 And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way. 37 And when he was now coming near the descent of mount Olivet, the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, 38 Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven, and glory on high! 39 And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy disciples. 40 To whom he said: I say to you, that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

I was raised in a religious atmosphere, and eternal punishment for those who reject Christ was preached constantly.

My child, who is 12, has for months now been anxious about death, ceasing to exist, losing everything in life, and so on.

when she was very young, she once asked me when Granpa was coming back.
Her maternal Grandma had told her that he was with Jesus.
I gave her a story about death being the end of our present existence, and our bodies go on to pushing up the daisies and feeding the butterflies and so on, and so things go !
That satisfied her for maybe 7 years, but the fears have been strong lately, then subsiding somewhat, but she still thinks about it every day.

She tries to imagine infinity and the universe ending or not ending, and various other puzzles too.

One question is this: are these fears absorbed mainly from the religious family and society or are these fears something that any reasoning person would experience even if raised in a secular world ?

My fears continued for a very long time, and still are there, though I do not dwell on them as much as at some periods of my life. I rationalize that the religions I know contain false information, and so even if there is an afterlife or if there is a soul, I have not the information to make any rational decisions regarding them other than to reject those notions that others have presented.

My more pressing question is this: what kind of support can I give her ? Or is there any to give ?

thanks for any ideas !

Re:Elmud
I think everyone at some point questions or thinks about death no matter what kind of upbringing or background you may have, why I dont know maybe because death is inevitable, why did I fear the subject - because im not ready to die so I reached the conclusion that maybe I wont worry about it until I am closer to my death naturally. It is a good sign to question the universe and subjects alike as it shows the person posesses intellectual thought processes. Nobody really knows what happens after life, you can guess and reason based on what is around you, yes you're more than likely to return to the earth and push up daisies, if your soul ceases to exist and thus your conciousness than you wont know any better if you get what I mean. Where did we come form before we we're born then, (I mean our souls-where were they before we we're born?). If there is a an afterlife then that is great if there isn't than you wouldn't exist to be bothered by that, like before we were born. I was once worried about my own mortality but since Im not ready to die yet im not going to worry about it unil im much older and then Im hoping by then i will be, (for some reason and dont know what reasons), i will be less fearful about the subject and maybe more at peace with it?
I think the best way to answer a childs questions, (although I have no experience or children of my own), is as honestly and truthfully as you can even if you do not know as that is the beauty of independent thought, your child will make decisions of her own and is only asking you questions to seek the knowledge she does not posess, she is not asking you to know all the answers to the big questions.