Her response was huge for an almost 6 year old. I was wondering what he meant by "older and older". Usually people get older, which means the day of their death gets closer and closer, which scared me because we never know when we will die. I never thought people could die. It could be after 4 years, 2 months, one day…. We simply don't know. As a child I never thought about death, about the fact that people will die one day. I was also starting to learn about myself. I was starting to understand life through my questions because as a child I asked a lot of retarded questions about things like why do dogs bark instead of howling or what is it? Why can birds fly and we can't...? And the answers I would get would change my way of thinking. Just like my sister-in-law's