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This morning. A conversation with Ash, 7.

“I know when you graduate High School you go to College but what happens when you graduate College?”

“Well, first of all not everyone goes to College. When they finish College some people just go out into the world and do their thing. Some people don’t even go to High School and that’s fine, they just learn how they learn and do their thing in the world. But some people go to College and then they graduate, if they want to keep learning about a really special thing, they go to what’s called Grad School. That’s short for Graduate School.”

“And what happens when you graduate from Graduate School?”

“Some people just keep going to school until they have 3 PhDs. Some people work jobs and teach things to other people or they make music or they’re astronauts or YouTubers or plumbers or they write books or run farms and basically people just work their works and hopefully live happy lives until they die.”

“And what happens when you graduate from Dying?”

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Michael Pollock

I'm waiting for that answer Amanda. 😉

Suzanne

I like the concept of graduating from dying.

SandraW

Children are amazing. How early they try to understand how everything works… I‘m impressed how you answered those questions. I remember when my son tried to understand religion … difficult topic… but now he knows how to feel about it…

Lisa Marie Fuqua

No one quite knows Ash, many of us have an inkling that there's something after that but no one quite knows what or what that thing is like other than it separates us from those that haven't died yet.

Lynn Robinson

Oh my!!! He’s a deep thinker , just like his mum ❤️

Sahrami

We learn some more!

Inderpreet Rikhra

Aww, that's a beautiful question too. We go back where we came from (space, stars, universe). Xx

Laura Wellner

I remember going to my great-grandmother's funeral, I was around Ash's age at the time. I was always one of those quiet kids, very often daydreaming, yet very aware and absorbing everything going on around me. One of my Mom's cousins was holding her little one up to the coffin and the little one asked what was wrong with great grandma. "She's asleep." I then felt I had to correct her, so I sang out loudly, "She's not asleep, she's dead." I don't recall anyone having the talk about the death thing with me, but I instinctively knew that's not being asleep. We are bigger on the inside, and so much more than this present existence.

erica munhoz

this was so sweet, I laughed out loud and needed it <3

Dahlia

Oh Ash!

Steven Panzek

Great question ash. Like the hat too. When your ma figures it out hopefully she shares with all of us ❤️

Janet in Georgia

Ahh the never ending stream of questioning from a child is the best and sometimes most frustrating thing in the world :)

Carmen J

That's the $64000 question, Ash. 💜

Yana

"And what happens when you graduate from dying" ....you still get a participation award and a big party 🙇‍♀️

Len Tower Jr.

"It's a mystery. We each find out when we die."

Laura Payne

Love this kid. 💕❤️💕

Casey

You answers and his questions are equally thoughtful and amazing. 💕

Desiree Straut

The best conversations I've ever had have been with my sons who are 13 and 9 now 🖤💜🖤💜 He is the sweetest thing

Joanna Lindblad

Love it ❤️ did you say "we transcend" ?

Jen

❤️❤️❤️

Andrew Raymond

Personally, I'm just hoping to fail dying and be held back...

Bearded Valkyrie

Flowers. You help grow flowers...or grass or trees or weeds.

Coriander Wolfgang Rainbeaux

For some, that's the end. Others, they come back over and over to get 3 more doctorates and repeat the process until they have collected them all, some come back as ghosts to haunt their favorite buildings, some become fertilizer, some are waiting until the zombie apocalypse to return, some are cryogenically frozen in the hopes to return to full life in the future...

James G Watt

Maybe there's just one consciousness and you just live every life that's ever lived.

Rachel Esteban

Like a caterpillar, we go into our cocoon, become goo, and then re-form into something majestic.

Stacey Saint Edmunds

Okay, if it’s still in print, you HAVE to get Ash a copy of “FREE TO BE YOU AND ME” by the Ms. Foundation. It was published back in the early 70s, I still have the copy my Mom gave me. So many great stories, poems, songs and more about equality, compassion, and the value of BEING YOURSELF! Maybe you read it when you were younger?

Rebecca Starodub

This is completely unrelated, but just saw The Riot Fest line up drop. So excited!!! 💜

Lisa Pannek

Well that moved me to make my very first comment. I cried at his last question and the thought that arose was “I hope there is peace”

Tammy Meier

This was just what i needed this morning. Thank you for the light hearted convo.

James G Watt

Amanda :o No retirement in your life plan! i mean I know it's not for everyone, If you're driven by a passion, maybe it's unthinkable, and for many, increasingly it feels like a right that is slowly being stripped away but .. retirement! ... up the French protesters :)

Danielle Cavanaugh

I believe you get to go a version of heaven and then come back to experience your next universal lesson. My son asked me last week How many earths there have been, he's five. I wasn't sure what he meant at first and then he said when the people before us existed how long ago was that and how many times were there new people. I said I wasn't sure, and he said that he thinks there's a drawer full of Earths and some are older than others but the different Earths of people are on each one and then when one ends God picks a new one and keeps the others in the drawer. BTW I don't practice any religion with my kids. I think about what he said now almost every day because it actually made a lot of sense to me lol

Laura Morland

Time to get your friend Fr. Nathan Monk into the conversation!

Cyn

Well, Ash, nobody really knows, but there are several hypotheses mostly depending on what a religion teaches. Myself, I'm going with the Steve Jobs Oh Wow idea.

Nicolai Giedraitis

You reach nirvana and then you can get back in line for the Ride.

EmVT

our school used Free To Be You and Me, I absolutely loved it 💜

EmVT

for one thing, you can say you've really got this death thing down :) i'll see myself out

Sally

The answer is 42.

Barbarella

There's a song in there. <3

EvilElitest

Oh hey, a description of my life, education and eventual death

Arielle

Great question❣️❤️❤️❤️

Willinwoods

That's deep AF. Some Buddha lvl thinking there. I like to think we live on in other people's memories. If remembered mostly with love and joy, we're in heaven. In any case, most of us slowly fade away as the years and generations pass; echoes of our voices getting weaker and increasingly distorted, until we join some sort of Cosmic Microsoul Background radiation... or something. And then, everybody had ice-cream.