You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought. Peter S. Beagle
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The idea of being dead is terrifying. I mean, you are not going to wake up if someone cuts off your head or something, are you? The idea of zombies and vampires is scaring people today. But, back in the days of Julius Caesar, the idea of being buried alive was quite common. During the Roman Empire, people would put people in tombs for thousands of years, sealed off from the rest of the world.

It wasn’t until the late 1800's that they realized people had started to come back alive after all these years. This realization made them open their eyes and start to understand how easily people could be buried alive for thousands of years. So, it can be said that there is no such thing as being permanently dead because there are always possibilities that the person may come back alive.

Source: A Fine And Private Place

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