Reply #18: What a horrible time for your family.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

There are no words that will make the pain go away, but the two traditions that I am most familiar with, Christianity (the non-Calvinist variety) and Japanese Buddhism, both promise some sort of happy continued existence in another dimension for children who die.

In Christianity, they are received by Christ, and in Japanese Buddhism, they are guided into paradise by the bodhisattva Jizo.

As I implied flippantly in another thread, no one really knows what happens to us after death. However, the longer I live and the more I travel, the more I am convinced that no one will get "a boiling kettle" simply for not holding specific beliefs. God is bigger than that.