Knowing how to talk to your kids about death and suffering can be intimidating. I remember the first time I talked about death with my oldest son.  He was 4 years old and very concerned about his flowers wilting.  A slew of questions ensued: “Why do they look different?”  “What does wilting mean?”  “But, I don’t want them to die!”  “Do flowers go to heaven?”   This lead to a conversation about how one day we will all die, but that for followers of Jesus, death…