Fun Fact: Ancient Egyptians revered cats so much as afterlife companions that they almost drove them extinct (locally) by killing so many to accompany the dead.
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drove them extinct
Humans do have a strange way of showing their love...
A large portion of the world believes in various deities who "love us" so much they will condemn us to literal eternal torture if we don't believe hard enough and do what their books say.
This isn't that far-fetched.
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Well, no. Unsuccessful people:
![A coffee tin] (https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c231e2de-0244-48a1-9b0c-29805cd6748b.jpeg)
Better not put me in a coffin when I die, I don't want to keep using up resources even after I'm dead