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[Young child]: Um..You see,
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there was this dog
that I was really fond of.
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And when they told me that he died
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I cried a lot after that.
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[Young child]: When you die,
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first, you feel all floppy.
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And then, you go...and then you go stiff.
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[Girl]: Everybody dies at
some point or another.
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[Boy]: There's a illness called "cancer"
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and you can die very quickly from it.
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It must be very powerful, or something.
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[Young child]: And babies don't really die a lot.
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Um, only when you grow up.
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Um...Well, you...you just get too old for your age...
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...and you die, but babies don't die much,
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so your brother mightn't die.
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When they told me
that my little brother had died...
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...I thought that they were just joking
and having a bit of fun.
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When I holded him, he was freezing cold.
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And then I realized that he was dead.
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But when they put him into the coffin, um...
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...it made me cry a lot because...
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...I had to..I had to say, "goodbye."
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[Young child]: I believe in life
after death, definitely.
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Well...
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..when you're lying in your coffin...
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...it's like you wake up again.
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And there's a lift beside you.
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And you step into this lift...
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...and you go up, up into heaven.
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[Young child]: Imagine you're in a tunnel.
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You walk through it, and then...
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there's a huge city
straight in front of you.
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[Young child]: You might meet
your granny, or..
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...granddad that died in 1939.
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[Young child]: Um...
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I think you can't really walk up there.
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I think God gives you special feet...
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...to walk around up there.
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And..and there's this big cloud...
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..that you can play football on, like me.
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[Girl]: And I think,
if you're buried up in heaven,
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you drop straight down to Earth.
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[Boy]: I think that when you die,
you lie there and rot.
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And your..then your soul
flies up to heaven.
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Or maybe down to the devil,
if you've been bad.
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[Young child]: There is really a lot of
embers and fire and lava.
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Because deep down in the Earth's core
is where Hell is...
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..and there is a lot of lava.
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[Boy]: It's horrible.
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When you're in hell,
the devil locks you in a cage, and...
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You...cry out for help.
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And...and then he
pulls a lever, and everything goes...
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...."PFFF."
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The devil wants a person
and God wants a person...
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...but it's best to go up to God.
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[Young child]: I think
God looks like an old king.
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A very old king.
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Maybe his brain has been cut up
into thousands of pieces.
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I don't know how many people
are in the world, but...
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...one of the piece thinks about you,
and another thinks about someone else.
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[Young child]: I don't think
there's a God.
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[Boy]: I went 'round,
the whole time,
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...screaming in pain,
'cause my head hurt so badly.
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It's hard to decide what you want to do.
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Whether to go to heaven,
or stay with your mum and dad.
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But, you can see if you'd prefer
to go up there, and be better..
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...or stay down here and live your life.
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[Girl]: Well, I went down
to the water's edge.
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And then, I just saw these two clouds..
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..that looked like
my great granny and granddad.
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And then, there was this
other cloud that just..
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..came up behind it, and it, uh..
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It looked like a chair.
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And it looked like they were just..
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..sitting on the chair, waving to me.
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But, some people just say
I'm superstitious.
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[Boy]: I think that when you die,
you can come back to life...
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...as a girl...
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...or a boy...
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...or a spider...
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...or a mouse.
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Or something.
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[Young child]: Maybe..maybe my brother
could come back down...
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...as a duck.
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I don't know, really.
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And then I could keep him, maybe.
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I put my hands together,
and I say "Please, please, God."
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"Can I talk to my brother
for one minute? Amen."
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Sometimes I dream about my little brother.
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When he was really tiny,
I used to play with him.
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I used to teach him how to walk.
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I know it was a bit soon...
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...but that was fun.
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I think a soul is a thing inside the body.
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Like a ghost, really.
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You can't live without a soul.
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That's what I believe.
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Your soul makes your heart beat.
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Maybe that's what kills you...
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...your soul getting weaker and weaker.
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To tell you the truth...
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...I'm not that scared of dying.
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Think of all the time I have left.
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I'm not scared about it, not now.