does it needs to be so serious consideration???

[LuckyMother]

My 5 years old watched a drama on TV and saw death on it. Now he is so much worried about death and keeps on saying that he does not want to grow up and does not want his parents to get old and die. this is also effecting his diet. If I say u should eat this to be strong and grow up again he gets sad saying "mumma if I grow u will get old and die so I don't want to be big boy." Yesterday he really made me cry when I blessed him saying that May God give u a very long life with good health and happiness. and he innocently asked me what does this mean and I explained and then he said "mum when u were young, did ur mum blessed u the same, please mum I dont want u to die and want u to have the same please tell ur mum to say the same to u what u said for me." and he was about to cry when I changed the topic.
But this really made me cry. Now even I am getting scared of dying and really don't understand what to explain or do to take this thing out of his mind. Can somebody please suggest something?

It sounds as though you have quite a religious thread in your life, so it might be worth talking about how death isn't serious, you can go to be with the people you love - that sort of thing. Just demystify it for him.

It's very normal for them to obsess about death at this age.

Especially hard if you don't have your head round it yourself (in as much as anyone can). I don't have any religious faith but tend to liken it the plants and animals dying, and the circle of life (The Lion King was quite helpful in this regard)

I explain that we and my DH aren't likely to die until the DSs are grown up. I know that's not a certainty, but I think being matter of fact helps. And then move on.

The phase will pass. Try not to get too upset about it.