Mom, Are Dead People Dead Forever?

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There’s been quite a bit of talk about death at our house lately. It hasn’t been prompted by anybody’s funeral— it’s just a natural rite of passage, part of growing up and realizing that, well, you’re alive. You keep having birthday parties every year, and your rudimentary math skills and interactions with your great grandparents suggest that one day you’ll be very old like them, and very old people eventually die. Long gone are…