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Be Not Afraid The Childlike spiritOne day, a week or so before Cassie’s death, we weresitting at the kitchen table, talking, and got onto thesubject of death. I don’t remember how. She said,“Mom, I’m not afraid to die, because I’d be in heaven.”I told her I couldn’t imagine her dying – that I couldn’tbear the thought of living without her. She replied, “ButMom, you’d know I was in a better place. Wouldn’t yoube happy for me?”In retrospect, Cassie’s frank statements about theafterlife seem uncanny. At the same time, they havereassured Misty as she continues to grapple with theloss of her only daughter: “But Mom, you’d know I wasin a better place.”Mary, another mother who lost a child, found similarcomfort in the thought that her son Pete was in God’shands. Pete, a five-year-old, died in a totally differentsetting – New York City, in the summer of 1960 – buthis departure was no less sudden.A happy, tow-headed little boy with blue eyes, Peteloved to play in the sandbox in front of his house withhis cars and trucks. When his kindergarten class set offfor the Bronx Zoo one August morning, Pete was highwith excitement. He wore his new sneakers and bestshirt. Little did anyone dream that it would be the lastday of his life.