Oscar Alvarez has always been interested in death. He was five or six years old when his neighbor was shot. When the police left, Oscar peeked into the room and saw the remains of the body. After that, he remembers asking his mom about death:
“What happens after this?”
She said, “Well, you have a soul. It’s like a little butterfly in your stomach and once you die, it’s gonna go.”
I said, “Where’s it gonna go?”
And she said, “It will go up in the air into the sky to heaven, and we’ll be happy for ever.”
“So that was the end of that. But it was always a question in my mind ever since I could remember, and is even now. I thought it would get easier, but it hasn’t really. We just don’t know until we hit that part of life. But we will find out. Eventually.”
