Age 5. While driving to school, a song on Spotify came on called “Heaven” by George & Jonathan. I told Elliot the title, and said I didn’t know the song.
“Change it, Daddy. Heaven is where people go when they died a long long time ago. In the 80s.”
“In the 80s?”, I asked.
“Yeah, in the 80s, a long long time ago. You put coins with people when they died, and they go to heaven”, he said.
He repeated the coins part a couple of times. I’m think he remembers that Egyptians and other cultures used to put coins on peoples eyes in the coffin. And I’ve told him the Greeks buried people with a coin so they could pay Charon, the ferryman, to cross the River Styx.
