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What does it mean?
Death is portrayed as a ruler in a distant land where everyone eventually ends up.
In plain terms
Death rules over a place where all people go eventually.
What can you take from it?
Everyone faces death regardless of their life choices.

Where it applies

  • contemplating death
  • writing about mortality

Putting it to work

  • accepting the inevitability of death

Questions to consider

  • How do you view the end of life?
  • What equalizes all people?

Another view

Some religious views suggest different destinations after death.

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