†007. permahandwritten

[harbingersoul]

Explain death. Symbolical, mythological, philosophical, theoretical. Rites or customs pertaining to the deceased.

...personal experience.

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[angel_promise]

Something so serious can't be taken so lightly. It's not so easy just to spill things like that.

[harbingersoul]

If you do not wish to answer, there is no need.

[angel_promise]

That could be a way of answering it, I think. Talking about death is to talk about how truly devastating it can be. You know it is, but you don't truly understand until you have experienced it.

Have you not?

[harbingersoul]

Death is a consistent factor in all aspects of life. There is hardly anyone untouched by it.

You speak from personal experience; you've lost someone ...recently?

[angel_promise]

Not recently, but it's not to say the sadness isn't still there... it's fresh all the time, because it just feels like a constant reminder that it can happen at any time. Even though I try not to think like that.

[grimdarkseer]

Quite the morbid topic you've chosen to bring to the community. I can only infer one of two things. Either you are fortunate enough to have never experienced such loss yourself or you are in the rather less fortunate position of having suffered such loss so many times that it has rather lost the weight of emotional impact.

[harbingersoul]

I ask out of a desire for knowledge. Any reminder of the inevitable has the possibility of discomfort, but I would think those who are would not be the ones to answer.

Do you have a comment on the subject?

[grimdarkseer]

Perhaps, but I'm far more interested in exploring the potential psychological imbalances that allow you to broach such a subject from such an objective angle.

[harbingersoul]

The same, perhaps, as your honest fascination: scholastic pursuit.

[greeneyed_demon]

That's a bit of a dark subject.

[harbingersoul]

One of importance; it has some measurable impact on all living things. It is understandable if you do not care to discuss it.

[greeneyed_demon]

I have no issue discussing it. My main issue is how broad of a subject it is. Perhaps if you narrowed it down a bit?

[harbingersoul]

If you are religious, the teachings of your faith. Are there any dogmatic themes that are clearly representative of your culture?

[dekillerqueen]

You're not interested in the biological aspect, then?

[harbingersoul]

Considering, wouldn't that qualify as first-hand knowledge? Explain as you will; any aspect is relevant.

[dekillerqueen]

Very well.

Nowadays, death is considered to occur only when brain activity ceases, although decomposition may begin shortly after the heart stops beating. The draining of the blood quickly results in livor mortis.

[harbingersoul]

Characterized by a discoloration of the skin as early as one hour following. Yes, we have similar classifications here.

Please, continue.

[makewayforroze]

Did something happen?

[harbingersoul]

There is hardly a time when there is not.

[makewayforroze]

It doesn't seem like a question that one just wonders about.

[harbingersoul]

You have never contemplated death, Roze?

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[endsorrow]

Death is not the end. At least, it isn't on my world. The spirits of the dead live on in a place called the Farplane. Ideally, at the very least. Sometimes, they linger, and sometimes, they are changed...

That is to say, here, it's rather complicated.

[harbingersoul]

The afterlife of your world is relatively straight forward. Elaborate more on this Far Plane and the nature of those not put to rest, if you will.

[endsorrow]

The Farplane is a physical place in Spira that may be visited by the living. They may see echoes of their loved ones, but whether or not they are actually the spirits of the dead is, for some, up for debate.

Often, there are those who are not willing to accept their deaths. It is, of course, understandable. But those spirits, unless they are Sent to the Farplane by summoners, will begin to change. It is said they become envious of the living, and that feeling slowly grows into hatred. At this point, they manifest in a new physical form, but this one is monstrous. They have become what is called a fiend, and then they begin to attack the living.

There are others who remain after their deaths, but they have a strong will, something that compels them and makes them strong enough to keep their human forms. These people are called Unsent, for obvious reasons.

[harbingersoul]

Your world is atypical; the afterlife is no physical realm in any other I have encountered. These Unsent are akin to ghosts, which are but legend. The fiends; there must be much death if they cause consistent problems.

You are very knowledgeable, ...?