No one wants to die.

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

overhaul.

Our mortality has been an obsession since the dawn of humanity itself.

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

Some cultures have practically moved heaven and earth to do 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, those bodies might be ready

for a new existence in a new place.

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

Long 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 a 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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