Promised Afterlife
Everyone wants to live forever. Is that what made religions so popular?
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6 min readApr 8, 2022
The ceremony has begun. It is not one of celebration, but one of loss. A subdued buzz of voices fills the air, and abruptly comes to a stop. It is time to lay the deceased to rest.
The body, now devoid of life, is being gently wrapped in a white sheet. It is laid on the funeral pyre…