Death has always been hard to understand — just try explaining it to a child. How strange it is to be speaking to a person you know one minute and find them absent the next. Their body is still present and looks the same, but the person is gone. What has become of them? Did they leave their failing bodies and go elsewhere? Or did they, somehow, cease to exist?In attempting to understand death, ancient people turned to story and myth. In Norse mythology, the god Baldur descends into Hela's [...]
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