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“Why aren’t you afraid of death?”
The Martian looked to the little one with confusion. What a silly question!
“Because I already know what happens when I die.”
The Child looked at him with curiosity. “Well what happens?”
“Well we return to the Singularity.”
“What’s that?”
“The Singularity is where everything began. The point in space in which somehow all of this…”
He gestures to the night sky above them.
“Galaxies, other planets, stars, you. All came from.”
The Child scrunched their brows as they thought.The Martian chuckled.
“You seem confused.”
“How… how could I come from nothing?”
“Gasses all packed together. And technically you didn’t directly come from it but… I think that’d get to be a little too complicated for you.”
The Child pouts for a moment at the loss of information but decides to not press further.
“So… when we die we become nothing?”
“No. Not nothing. We become everything!”
“Huh? Everything?”
“Yes! For technically the Singularity wasn’t nothing. If it was nothing then we wouldn’t have come from it. The Singularity isn’t so much nothing but is more so the existence of everything all at once. It just looked like nothing to us.”
“So… does that mean that… we get to live forever?”
“In a sense, yes. Once we die our bodies may decompose into the earth or be burned into ashes, but our matter always goes back to that Singularity. Eventually it will happen to the whole universe. And once that happens, another Singularity will give birth to a new universe and life will be made once again.”
“Does that mean I’ll get to see my mom again?”
“Maybe. Depends how you may grow up in that life. For all you know you could grow up without one!”
The Child sighs and looks up at the sky.
“This is too confusing…”
“Don’t worry. You won’t need to worry about it for a long time.”