I'm not religious, and I don't personally believe in an after-life in heaven with Jesus.
DD has just started school in September (and will be 5 in January) and they are doing a nativity.
Also, my nan (DD's great-nan) died recently; although she lived over 100 miles away and we were not that close.
I don't want my sensitive DD to start worrying about death, and have contained her questions by saying that old people die, and very sick people die. She hasn't started asking what would happen if mummy or daddy got sick and died, yet, and hasn't got the measure that young people or babies get sick and die.
Now that she's doing the nativity, she's absolutely obsessed with Jesus and him being in heaven, and her wanting to go and see him and her great-nan.
I'm a big believer in allowing her to choose for herself whether she'd like to be religious or not, so when we talk about god, I'm very careful to use phrases like "some people believe... XYZ", and "the bible has some very good stories about Jesus, but no-one knows if they're really true"
I really don't like misleading her about death, but neither do I want to give her a reality check... any advice?!