When a child dies, does s/he become more mature? How much more?

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• I mean like, how much more mature does s/he become in the afterlife? Or does s/he remain a child forever? Physically, and emotionally? Is there no natural growth there?

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  by Tondoteottotote on March 1st, 2010

• Beats me.
  
  We'll find out if we get there.

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  by The Chief on March 1st, 2010

• Consider this. When a man's wife dies, when they are in their twenties, and the man lives until ninety, what will they have in common if they meet again in the afterlife? If a child is stillborn, will it remain deaf, blind and dumb in the afterlife? If my best friend died when I was seven, and I die when I am seventy, where will be the meeting point between us?
  It seems the only options are that we all change in the afterlife to become something different from what we are now, or we are psychically mutilated in the afterlife, so we do not retain the affections we feel in this life.
  Neither alternative is a good one, so far as I am concerned, and is an indication that our belief in an afterlife is probably fallacious.

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  by Prunesquallor on March 1st, 2010

• I should think that if there IS an afterlife, then reaching it would of necessity HAVE to involve a fundamental transfermation of who and what we are in this physical existance.
  
  If it DOES exist, then it's simply a part of the way things work naturally and we have no say in the matter. It'll happen when it happens and it doesn't matter what we think about it in the hear and now.
  
  If it DOESN'T exist, then again...it doesn't matter what we think about it in the hear and now.
  
  Either way, I should think that the goal of those of us among the living should be to make life as meaningful enjoyable a process as we can for each other in the meantime.
  
  :):)

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  by The Chief on March 1st, 2010

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• I mean like, how much more mature does s/he become in the afterlife? Or does s/he remain a child forever? Physically, and emotionally? Is there no natural growth there?

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  by Tondoteottotote on March 1st, 2010

• If the afterlife exists it usually is eternal and thourgh studying various beliefes you are what your were before dieing. So if you die a child you will be a child for all eternity.

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  by warex255 on March 1st, 2010

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• Afterlife.

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  by Tondoteottotote on March 1st, 2010

• ahh , gotcha .. ok .. then yes . it has been said that child spirits do tend to lose their "sillyness" , but can still remain playfull. as if they know more , and are more aware . hence , many movies depict child ghosts as such . (mature ) in mind . but still remain the same size , shape and looks of the age she was when she crossed over.

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  by The Anonymous Witch on March 1st, 2010