Intro to me and my interest in the history of death

     I think the interest for learning about this all started in grade 4-5(?) when I looked through this book on ancient Egypt and saw this one blurb about mummification, and I read that one blurb over and over again. Then I stopped learning about it for a while until march of 2020, so the beginning of this pandemic, and I learnt again traditions around it, some afterlife beliefs, mummification (wet and dry). 

I'm by no means an expert on any of this, so my words are served with a grain or two of salt, I just spew out what I know and think is interesting!

     

I never really found the topic sad, a lot of the time it's a better situation for those who are in it (unless one's simply not ready), and that was what was ingrained in me for a long time. I was never taught what belief to believe in from. young age, but I did know that there's nothing to fear. What I fear is any possible pain before hand, not what comes after. What comes after though is what interests me. Even thinking of it now doesn't upset me, or make me scared, and it's not from being desensitized, it's simply from, I don't know, just not fearing it. I've had loved ones go when it was their time and I simply felt happy for them. Sure I was sad too, but I knew they weren't in pain anymore, and were safe.

In no means am I going to go into a science that figures that out; I'd rather help the grieving with seeing their loved ones again like how they saw them before it was time.