s of death.
Most often, the classes of death experienced by humans fall into three categories:
Total Death. This is the typical human death. Sleeping the big sleep. Taking a dirt nap. The spirit has moved on and the body is empty meat in the cold ground. Nothing, short of some expensive special effects or an act of god, is going make a Total Death any but a common separation of spirit and a feast for worms.
Hungry Death. This is a loathsome kind of half- death. Typically, the hungry dead end up as zombies-slow-witted, gluttons for human flesh and smelling like an abandoned pig farm. This is the category where you never want to find yourself. Too deranged for Heaven and too unstable to accept damnation in Hell, theres no love lost in any Sphere for the Hungry Dead.
Petit Mort. The little death. This is the most elusive, but perhaps the most sublime human death. Its reserved for those enlightened souls to whom death and life arent separate states, but the continuation of a single thought. Once theyve made that initial transition between life and death, your typical Petit Mort spirit slips continually been the Land of the Dead and the Living Earth, wherever the action happens to be at the time.
Each state of death has a very different cast. Not all bad ones are punished. Not all good souls are rewarded. Luck or the lack of it, timing and intelligence are as important in death as they are in life.
A few of the humans whove experienced Total Death are musicians Buddy Holly and Bob Wills (plus most of his Texas Playboys); comedian Andy Kauffman; aviatrix Amelia Earhart; Picasso; cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova; Marilyn Monroe; and Hitler.
The Hungry Dead also include a number of musicians, most notably Jim Morrison; also actress Jayne
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