[[life-and-death-mortality]] [[body-functions-and-diseases]] *** - = an instance, a temporal point, of transition between a moment where one's constitution is endowed with life and one where it is not - = decay *** ## By Branch [[death-germanic]] [[death-greek]] ## Misc Scholarship [[EIEC]]: "Death", "Die" [[calin2022-08-13]] [[hansen-l1987-indo]] [[lincoln1986-themes]] [[graslund2002]] [[long2019]] [[jones1997]] [[zochios2019]] [[white-d1989]] dogs & dice [[rolinson-series-dead]] [[rolinson2018-09-26]] [[rolinson2019-8-25]] [[rolinson2019-07-12]] [[rolinson2019-07-29]] [[rolinson2019-12-14b]] [[rolinson2019-08-10]] [[rolinson2020-02-22]] [ie-connection: death](https://www.indo-european-connection.com/words/death) ## Topics [[death-beings]] [[death-and-birds]] [[death from above]] [[winged-death-goddesses]] ### Etymology `*mer-` `*nek̑- [109]` For more see [[buck-4.75-to-die-dead-death]] ### Who is subject to it Not [[gods]] [[humans-vs-gods]] ### 1. Ritual Transition [[funerary-traditions]] ### 2. Soul travels to Otherworld All humans are fated to die, and when we do our soul moves to the [[otherworld]]/afterworld/afterlife ### 3. Persistence/Precense (i.e. restless dead, elves) [[war-dead]] [[kaliff2007]] ### Graves (both 1 & 3) ### By Function [[warrior-death]]