If your child asked you "what is death?" What would you say?

[T-Bone24]

"You'll find out when you're older, son... we'll all find out."
*stare longingly out of rain-soaked window as soft piano music plays.*

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

...

really? I find this kind of perplexing. even at a young age it seemed so simple to me, I'd Be shocked if my kid hadn't figured it out yet.

probably I'd show him the remake of dawn of the dead, just to be evil. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

EDIT: or show him a pic of the grim reaper.

 

[GrinningManiac]

"You know when we found grandpa, and he was all pale and smelled funny and had pooed all over the bed?
That. And it will happen to you.
Soon if you don't quit asking stupid questions."

Then I toss the whiskey bottle at them and fart.
You know, as all good irish fathers should.

Can't...stop...giggling...

..."pooed"...PRICELESS...

...need...time...to...breath...

*gurk*

 

[interspark]

"why i'll show you sweetie! MWAHAAHAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"

in all seriousness id probably just change the subject

 

[Kenko]

I'd simply reply that death is the ending of life. Keep things simple.

 

[cheese_wizington]

I'd say it's when you grow old and your body can't work anymore, you just stop breathing and thats that.

I'm not very good with kids.

 

[Canid117]

Your internal organs stop functioning and you cease to be a living person. Some theorize that there is an after life where your conscience and personality persist after death while others theorize that you simply cease to exist. Now go do your homework.

 

[Elephant Walker19]

I'd show him wiki's Buddhism page.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Depends on how old they are at the time, and what's triggered their interest. Probably say that it's like going to sleep, only you don't wake up.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

"Well...Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To get to de ovver side?"
"Yes. But sometimes you don't make it...Like Mummy."

 

[ARatherHandsomeGent]

The opposite of what we are now.

 

[Lullabye]

I'd show him through interpretive dance!
(I'd just lie there....)

 

[bam13302]

to understand death, you must understand life
to understand life, you must experience death
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hopefully ill have something better by the time i have a child

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Show em 'A little piece of heaven' by Avenged 7 fold. Hell, I never wanted children in the first place, may as wel twist the childs phyce as much as my own.

 

[bam13302]

"Well...Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To get to de ovver side?"
"Yes. But sometimes you don't make it...Like Mummy."

GAH, what is that from?!??!?

 

[LightspeedJack]

I'd fire up that bit in Final Fantasy IX when the black mage is trying to explain death to Vivi. That should scare him enough to leave me alone.

 

[Soushi]

Death is a simple part of life, both proof that we are alive and proof that we are still as much a part of nature as nature is a part of us."

 

[Rhymenoceros]

"Well...Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To get to de ovver side?"
"Yes. But sometimes you don't make it...Like Mummy."

GAH, what is that from?!??!?

It's paraphrased from a very recent Cyanide and Happiness Only a few days old.

I checked. It's only 3 days [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2159/] old!

 

[Corporal Bill]

"It's when people go to heaven after a good life"

Atheist btw