A nice conversation on death

...from the novel The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

Huila: Will I die now?
Teresita: Yes.
Huila: I don't want to die.
Teresita: I know.
Huila: Does it hurt?
Teresita: No.
Huila: Will I be afraid?
Teresita: Oh no.
Teresita: Do you know how it is when a child needs to go to sleep? How a child fights and bargains. Asks for a story, or cries, or suddenly needs water to drink because she won't go to sleep?
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: But you know it is time. For whatever reason - it is time for the child to sleep. It's late, or she needs to get up early in the morning, or she is ill. You have to make her go to sleep, sometimes against her will.
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: This is how it is with God and us. God has to put us to bed, and we don't want to sleep yet.
Huila: Will I like being dead?
Teresita: Did you enjoy being alive?
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: Then, you will enjoy your death. I wish you could stay. I will miss you.