D: I don’t want to die.
Me: I don’t want you to die either. You’re not planning on dying any time soon are you?
D: No, but we all have to die!
Me: True. And then it’s a bit ‘nothingy’ when you’ve turned to dust. You might turn into a lovely butterfly after you die, though!
D: What?
Me: Some people believe that after you die you come back as something else – it’s called reincarnation. What would you want to come back as?
D: Me.
Me: Not somebody else?
D: No – I want to come back and be a five years old me again.
Me: That’s nice to hear. You couldn’t just pop back into the world as five years old though – you’d have to be born again and start as a baby.
D: But I don’t want to start all over again – it’s not fair! I want to pop back into this world as five years old!
Me: And what about if you don’t die until you’re really, really old – would you still want to come back as a ‘five-year-old you’ then?
D: Yes.
Me: Well you’re not going to die for a very, very, very, very, very, very long time anyway…
D: Yes – a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time!
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