From a secular source.
In the medieval world, death was not a single moment — it was a passage watched, sung, and feared. Families kept vigil for days, guided by candles, prayers, and the fragile hope that memory could outlast mortality. From Europe’s cathedrals to Asian temples and Middle Eastern deserts, every ritual revealed one truth: people did not fear death itself, but the silence that follows forgetting.
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