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PixiePirateX:
When I was a kid, my parents are hardcore atheists. I was told how it was, nothing in the afterlife. You just die and are gone. I don't know if I am just different but it didn't really freak me out. I was like " oh... Okay" and went on with my life deciding it was important to try to enjoy my life and get as much out of it as I can since there wasn't another chance.

I should mention that I explored different belief systems and never really connected. I am oddly comfortable with the fact that it just ends, and there isn't anything more. Going back to the start of things I guess.

Surgoshan:
I have a lovely bunch of coconuts.

An Andalusian hound.

Jeff7:
And an eternity in Heaven - I'd think that after the first 200 trillion quadrillion millennia, it might start to get a bit dull.

Heck, Earth won't be much concern in about 1 billion years, when changes in the Sun will make Earth hostile to our kind of life forms; and definitely not within 5 billion years, when the Sun goes all red-giant and roasts Earth. But it'll still be delicious - a crispy silicon-oxide crust and a gooey iron center.
I'd hope that we'll be off the planet long before then. Heck, there's already proposals such as Project Longshot, which could use existing technologies to get a spaceship to the Alpha Centauri system after only a 100 year journey.

CaseyKoons:

--- Quote ---Atheist/nonreligious parents, what do you tell YOUR kids? I am curious to know!
--- End quote ---

I hope this is a space where I can answer Jeph's question. I tweeted also.

How about "I don't know?" I started out as an atheist/agonistic and now am something of an eclectic Catholic and a PhD student of Comparative Religion. My kids will likely be raised Catholic, but I would still likely answer that question with an expression of uncertainty and start a conversation about what various people believe.

Both Penelope and Hannelore would have had it easier if their parents have revealed, in addition to their perspectives, that there were others out there who they were bound to bump into with different ideas.

Puki:
Oh...good question.
My parents are, on the other hand, hard core christians, but I didn't seem to follow them. Although, I think I believe in some sort of afterlife (but not in "200 billion trillion ladidadida years of happyness and joy and all that).
To Jeph's question - have no kids, but I guess I'd try to explain to them that we don't know, so - just to be sure - if it turns out there is nothing afterwards, you should try not to be a complete unproductive ass "here on earth".

That sounded SO MUCH MORE smarter in my language...

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