how do you deal with telling your child that his or her beloved pet died?

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how do you deal with telling your child that his or her beloved pet died? do you just tell them point blank and scoff it off? do you make a burial for the animal? do you sit with them and ask them how they were feeling and answer any questions or comfort them if they are crying if they are crying do you tell them to get over it everything dies? do you lie and make up a story like the dog ran away or a nice family cam to take him to the farm If your child is grown up and away at college, would you tell him or wait until the child came home do you buy another dog just like that one and pretend it is the original dog or cat or rabbit or whatever it was. I was just watching the king of queens and dog was never told his childhood dog had died, they just keep replacing the dog with a another one that looked the same.