How do you explain "deadth"?

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	My big M is 8 now. Recently, there were a lot of killing and shooting on the news both locally and nationally. Big M understands what are they talking on the news, but he is not fully understand deadth. He thinks when a person dies, he/she will become a baby again and the parents catch the baby and put it in the mother's tummy, that is also how you have children. The hard part is he thinks the person is still around. He thinks graveyard is make-believe, not real, same as heaven.  Now, I do not need to explain to him what is death, but some day, I have to...but how can I let him know that he will not see this person again when a person dies? You'll find articles, sosial stories, and some tips on children's books here: http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27023&am p;PN=1 [QUOTE=M&Mmom]i think age 8 is a good age to start explanig that death is a part of life in an age apporte way .an that baby come from mommy tummy not from someone who die .we are very litterl so for us it best to allways be as honest as you can .my mom never told me silly story like the stork brings baby an stuff they all ways use the apporite trems for body parts an so on .my mom once in awhile would say something i thinking litterl would say something she re explanie it .but since he asking qustion you should give him the most simplest explantion .even nt kids dont get death .my mom dad die when she was 6 an she though he was comming back to .there are lots of books for kids on this My big M is 8 now. Recently, there were a lot of killing and shooting on the news both locally and nationally. Big M understands what are they talking on the news, but he is not fully understand deadth. He thinks when a person dies, he/she will become a baby again and the parents catch the baby and put it in the mother's tummy, that is also how you have children. The hard part is he thinks the person is still around. He thinks graveyard is make-believe, not real, same as heaven.  Now, I do not need to explain to him what is death, but some day, I have to...but how can I let him know that he will not see this person again when a person dies? [/QUOTE] All these ideas are his own orginal ideas. We don't lie to him, just not correcting him yet because he is very immature for his age. He is like a 5 or 6 year, very simple and creative.
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