No one wants to die.

If the human design was scheduled for unrevision, that's one of the features that would get

an overhaul.

Our mortality has been an obsession since the dawn of humanity itself, humans long for

ways to avoid death, or at least make it bearable.

Some cultures have practically moved heaven and earth doing so.

Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians built enormous stone structures in order to house

their dead and ensure them a place in the afterlife.

They perfected the art of embalming, so that even after death, their bodies might be ready

for a new existence in a new place.

Death is a reality for all of us, whether we like it or not.

Young or old, rich or poor, healthy or sick, life is one long journey down a road, and

we walk until it's over.

Some think they see the light at the end of it all, while others hope for darkness.

And that's where the mystery of it all comes in.

No one knows what's on the other side.

We just know that the proverbial walk ends at some point.

And maybe that's why we spend so much time guessing at it, building story and myth, and

belief around this thing we can't put our finger on.

What would be easier, some say, is if we just didn't die, if we somehow went on forever.

It's impossible, but we dream of it anyway.

No one returns from the grave.

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